Most IT departments are not certain their mobile policies are compliant with both corporate policy and government regulation, according to a report.
Bring Your Own Device means staff are increasingly taking their smartphones into work. Despite this, according to research commissioned by Accellion, an enterprise security company, just 30 percent of organisations have an approved BYOD policy.
70 percent of respondents admitted to being “concerned” and a further 20 percent “extremely concerned” about mobile file sharing.
Additionally, 63 percent of those surveyed want to clamp down on VPN use, and about two thirds have or plan to allow official enterprise content management accross mobile devices. Of course, this means making sure the infrastructure is in place to secure those devices – especially running on sensitive networks.
There was a consensus on limiting or controlling with sites or folders are accessible to staff on mobile, for example, making sales documents available on mobile but blocking access to human resources.
14 percent of respondents were in the process of developing their own corporate app store, with another 14 percent already having one.
