Only 18 percent of organisations are confident that their mobile policies are compliant with corporate policy and government regulation. That is according to research released by Accellion, Inc.
The gap between what mobile workers want and what IT departments can secure is causing friction in all industries, it is claimed. Only 30 percent of organisations have an approved BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) policy in place, yet 46 percent of respondents reported that information access via mobile is ‘essential’ and another 24 percent cite it as ‘somewhat important.’
Paula Skokowski, chief marketing officer of Accellion, said: “The growing need for mobile content access by employees is creating significant security headaches for organisations. How employees access corporate information is changing, and organisations need to respond to these changes by implementing new mobile policies and processes, or risk playing security catch-up with their employees.”
With 70 percent of respondents expressing they are ‘concerned’ and another 20 percent ‘extremely concerned’ about mobile file sharing
Other findings from the report include:
· Sixty-three percent of organisations want to eliminate or limit VPN use.
· Nearly two-thirds of respondents have or plan to allow official enterprise content management (ECM access) via mobile devices
· 91 percent of users must limit or control which sites or folders are accessible to end users on mobile devices, e.g., mobile users can access sales documents but not HR documents
· While 51 percent of large organizations have an MDM solution in place, only 24pc of smaller organizations have such solutions.
· Only 14 percent of organizations have a corporate app store, with another 14 percent in the process of developing one.
To view the full research findings download a complimentary copy of the AIIM report, titled “Survey Report: Mobile Content Security and Productivity
Methodology
The survey results quoted in this release are taken from a survey carried out between June 7 and July 8, 2013; from individual members of the AIIM community surveyed using a web-based tool. Total number of respondents was 284, 64 percent are from North America and 25 percent from Europe. They cover a representative spread of IT people from industry and government sectors.
