Respondents to the survey included CIOs, CTOs, IT department heads and decision makers from the banking and finance sector, healthcare, oil & gas, and the government sectors. The survey revealed that all of the respondents’ organisations extensively used multiple mobile devices such as notebooks, tablets, and smartphones. However, the most significant cause for concern for 83 per cent of the respondents in terms of security and compliance challenges was found to be malware on an employee’s device. 95 per cent of the respondents said their organisation had not suffered any security breaches in the past 12 months.
“The findings indicate that CIOs and IT departments are clearly concerned about the risks and challenges associated with increased use of mobile devices by employees. However, it is encouraging to see that security and compliance is high on the agenda for organisations, even though they have not experienced any breaches in recent times.” said Andrew Lintell, director of sales, Identity Assurance, EMEA at HID Global.
While organisations acknowledge that cloud-based storage services are widely used among employees, 34 per cent said that they strongly discouraged or prohibited users from using these services to access company data or services. The findings further revealed that 42 per cent of respondents provided unofficial advice and support when problems related to cloud-based services occurred, while only 4 per cent believe the use of personal devices to access cloud-based applications and/or cloud services to be of concern.
