From: eWeek
By Nathan Eddy
One of the most significant origins of endpoint challenges stem from federal employees using personal devices for work, according to the report.
Federal agencies are facing an explosion in the both the volume and variety of network endpoints, providing far more opportunities for malicious access to government networks, according to a MeriTalk and Palo Alto Networks survey of 100 U.S. Federal IT managers and 100 Federal employees.
The study found 44 percent of endpoints are unknown or unprotected and that barely half of federal government survey respondents have taken critical steps to secure endpoints, such as scanning for vulnerable or infected endpoints.
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