CIO: The BYOD Mobile Security Threat Is Real

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Cloud storage, text messaging, poor accountability and the "Bad Leaver" open the doors to data breaches in a BYOD environment, says a cyber-crime expert in this CIO.com interview.

By Tom Kaneshige
May 30, 2013

Paul Luehr knows a thing or two about security, the law and "Bring Your Own Device," or BYOD.

Formerly a federal prosecutor and supervisor of the Internet fraud program at the Federal Trade Commission, Luehr is a managing director at Stroz Friedberg, a global data risk management company with a cyber-crime lab. He focuses on computer forensics, investigations and discovery.

BYOD has led to an increase of mobile devices, cloud storage repositories, different kinds of data types, and, of course, data theft by disgruntled employees. "The number of cases we have involving mobile devices has probably doubled in the last three years," Luehr says.

While there's a lot of hand-wringing over BYOD and mobile security—some would say it's "over-hyped"—Stroz Friedberg deals with real cases concerning data breaches. Luehr sat down with CIO.com to talk about what kinds of threats he's seeing, how companies are reacting, and where they're falling short.

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