Several weeks ago I had the pleasure of hosting another Compliance Week editorial roundtable, this time in Los Angeles to discuss data security risks in the era of mobile devices and social media. The discussion was vigorous as usual, and Compliance Week will have in-depth coverage of the discussion in a separate article. Let me report some of my own conclusions here, however, in the interest of helping compliance executives to panic more effectively about a problem hurdling toward them.
Coming in on little cat feet. One roundtable participant summed his worries about mobile devices as follows. “We were in an audit committee meeting, talking about financial projections, and all the board members were reviewing the documents on their iPads,” he said. “Then it dawned on me. We hadn’t given them any iPads.”
