Mobile Devices In The Enterprise: iOS Most Popular, Android Deemed Greatest Security Risk

Dimensional Research notes that Mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets, proliferate in today’s corporate environments, and while there are significant opportunities to leverage these devices to increase the effectiveness of mobile workers, there are also significant concerns about the privacy of sensitive corporate data stored on the devices that IT must handle.

A new report, sponsored by Check Point, is based on a global survey of 768 IT professionals conducted in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, and Japan. The goal of the survey was to gather data about current mobile computing trends, including the type of data stored or accessed on mobile devices and the potential for heightened data security risks.

Key Findings of the report include that Apple’s iOS is the most common mobile platform used to connect in corporate environments, that 71% of respondents say mobile devices have contributed to increased security incidents, and that the Android mobile platform is considered to introduce the greatest security risks

Participants in the study reported that Apple iOS (30%) and BlackBerry (29%) were the most commonly used mobile device types connecting to their corporate networks followed by Android (21%), with Android viewed as the most risky platform named as such by 43 percent of the IT professionals in this study. BlackBerry was the operating system perceived as having the lowest potential for problems than other mobile platforms with only 22% ranking it as the platform with the greatest security risk.

You can download the complete survey report: “The Impact Of Mobile Devices On Information Security: A Survey Of It Professionals” in PDF format here:
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