Almost 20 percent of US PCs have no A/V protection

A new study from McAfee is claiming that 17 percent of PCs around the world have no antivirus protection and in the U.S. that number is even higher at 19 percent.  The study counted as unprotected machines those that had no antivirus protection installed, or whose antivirus subscription had expired. In the U.S., 12 percent of PCs did not contain any antivirus program, and 7 percent had software that was expired.  


Along with BYOD (Bring Your Own Device), organizations that allow their employees to hook up their own devices to the corporate network should be making sure all users on the network (regardless of whether it's a personal or corporate owned device) are protected by a secure web gateway / proxy.  With a high likelihood the device itself may not be protected, there really needs to be some line of defense, and it's the secure web gateway.  In addition many proxies can also protect infected devices from uploading personal or corporate owned information back to hacker owned servers in the network that are trying to collect personal and corporate data.