As experts told me more than a year ago, when mobile workers cause a security breach, lax policy enforcement is often the culprit. If 73% of mobile workers aren’t fully aware of the risks they face when using mobile technology, information security managers should spend a little more time on their soapboxes.

Well, that’s not true. Road warriors will probably tune you out during a lecture. But you need do something to drive the point home. Cisco’s survey revealed that 28% of mobile workers “hardly ever” consider security risks and proper behavior.

Cisco offers a lesson here with its survey results. Companies need to educate their mobile workers and marry that to technology that protects network connections and mobile devices. Of course, Cisco offers plenty of products that solve these problems. No surprise there.

But you can’t buy a new corporate culture. That takes a commitment from you and your IT personnel to help users understand that if they open an attachment from a mysterious email address, their smartphones could be compromised. If they piggyback onto an unknown Wi-Fi connection, that connection could be a trap. Just jumping onto an unknown connection to check the latest baseball score can get their devices hacked. It’s rare, but it can be done. Tell them horror stories, and tell them it could cost them their jobs. And show them how easy it is to reduce risky mobile behavior.