Trends Report

Unmasking Consumer Privacy Tools

Uses, Benefits, And Implications For S&R Pros

September 5th, 2014
Heidi Shey, Principal Analyst
Heidi Shey Principal Analyst
With contributors:
Stephanie Balaouras , Andrew Hewitt , Kelley Mak , Jennie Duong

Summary

Consumerization is alive and well, and today's engaged tech-savvy employees will bring in tools and services of their choosing to help them do their jobs better and more efficiently. This includes a variety of tools that produce security and privacy benefits. Security and risk (S&R) professionals can actually make use of such consumer tools to uplift security and privacy for the organization and its customers, too. This report explores the landscape of popular consumer privacy tools in use today, identifies key functions available from such tools, and introduces ways in which S&R pros can fold consumer privacy solutions and services in as additional components of a security awareness toolkit and customer-facing breach response strategy.

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