Access Risk Survey Results Surprising
Posted by David Fowler - Senior VP of Products and Marketing on Fri, Sep 16, 2011
Mobile devices — iOS phones or tablets, Android smart phones and laptops are all accepted as necessary tools for productivity in the enterprise — regardless of how they affect data security. Today, you’ve got to manage access risk to corporate data regardless of device or location.
We recently surveyed 988 IT decision makers at large global enterprises to see how they were coping with their access risk challenges. While we found most were confident they could assure appropriate user access to resources on-premises, surprisingly they were much less confident when users connected via the cloud, on mobile devices or laptops.
Sixty-nine percent, or two out of every three large enterprises report they have employees connecting their own personal mobile devices to the corporate network; but more than one in every five organizations doesn’t have a policy to govern this use—or aren’t sure if a policy even exists. Unfortunately, this situation isn’t unusual and nearly 10 percent of enterprises have experienced a data breach following the loss of a mobile device that had accessed their networks.
Companies are scrambling to keep up with information access vulnerabilities and compliance violations created by mobile devices that access and store confidential information. But by implementing and carefully managing the right access risk management solution, they can bring the same strength of protection to mobile devices that companies have deployed internally — ensuring that the right people have the right access to the right resources and are doing the right things. To learn more about the Courion survey, click here.