Mobile MadnessSecure Mobility Survey reveals a critical gap between theenterprise mobility vision and real-world implementations

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IT and security professionals surveyed globally confirm mobility is a top priority for most IT departments.

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These are Dimension Data’s insights, gathered from IT professionals spanning the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East, and Africademonstrate that organisations from around the world share many of the same priorities, challenges and risks.

32% have conducted a security assessment of key applications touched by mobile devices

27% have well-defined network policies for mobility in place

90% say they have no way to prevent staff from using their personal mobile devices to access enterprise systems

23% freely allow users to download non-corporate approved applications to improve their productivity

Survey Highlights

An IT roadmap that integrates with a business’s operational goals and the organisation’s existing IT infrastructure – one that provides for necessary resources and budget and also highlights potential challenges – makes the difference between a successful implementation and being derailed by unforeseen problems. This is especially true when it comes to mobility, which is particularly complex and touches most parts of an organisation’s network infrastructure. For this reason, it isn’t surprising that of the 79% of IT leaders who classify mobility as a top priority, 69% already have a roadmap in place.

A critical gap exists between the enterprise mobility vision and real-world implementations

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The vast majority of respondents (82%) indicated that employees at their organisations are utilising personal mobile devices for work purposes. Analysts advocate that organisations must have a clear mobility strategy that ensures mobile technology is an investment that works hard to deliver business value and meet the demands of an increasingly mobile workforce. To some extent, organisations are starting to listen to the analyst community because today, 55% of the all the organisations surveyed have a mobility roadmap of some kind.

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Concern

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Given the security issues found on the vast majority of devices within mature networks, IT leaders are correct to be concerned about data security and access control issues relating to mobility. The importance of protecting company data is a top mobility priority for 71% of respondents, while 65% identified access control as their top priority.

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What is surprising, given the extent to which they recognise the risk, is that the area where IT leaders have the greatest amount of control – conducting security audits of applications touched by mobile devices – has not been a priority. Only 32% of respondents have taken that step.

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Real-world employee productivity improvements, userexperience and security are not meeting expectations.Over 90% of respondents believe that employees will use their personal mobile devices to access enterprise systems on their own and that IT does not have the capability necessary to stop this activity. IT leaders believe clear policies are needed to increase control, improve visibility and decrease risk.

However, 80% of respondents also seek to create a positive mobility experience for employees to help increase productivity. To a large extent, employee experience is important to IT leaders because 79% of them recognise that an increase in worker productivity is the greatest benefit offered by mobility.

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Productivity,

Perhaps because of the limited investment that inhibits employees from accessing the business-critical applications needed to perform their job functions, 24% of respondents indicate that their organisation allows them to download non-corporate applications to increase productivity. This is another example of where the gap between the overall vision and the way in which it’s typically executed makes it difficult for organisations to achieve their goal – while at the same time creating new and often undetectable security vulnerabilities.

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A mobility policy should be monitoring the use of corporate data, while maintaining a userfriendly interface. Project manager, Spain

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The EMDM helps you to better understand your organisation’s current state of development, performance, operational practices and strategic execution, and enables you to develop an enterprise mobility roadmap for your organisation’s future aspirations.

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