Employees implementing their own private WiFi in the workplace are leading to security headaches for administrators.

Pravin Bhagwat, co-founder and CTO of AirTight Networks, claimed that this was a worrying trend, as users have WiFi at home and want the same convenience at work, so are buying their own private devices and plugging them into the private network.

Bhagwat explained that they put the routers under their desk so have their own access and find a connection. “But 50 per cent will use Belkin and Netgear when it should be Trapeze or Cisco, but the IT administrator does not have the tools,” he said.

Source: SC Magazine UK