Study reveals “big doubts” over mobile compliance

Only 18 percent of organizations are confident that their mobile policies are compliant with corporate policy and government regulation, according to research released by Accellion, Inc., the pioneer in providing enterprise-class, secure mobile productivity solutions, and AIIM, a global non-profit organization that provides independent research, education, and certification programs to information professionals. In addition, 51 percent of organizations have ‘big doubts’ about their mobile content management processes.

Tuesday, 17th September 2013 Posted 11 years ago in by Phil Alsop

The growing chasm between what mobile workers want and what IT departments can secure is causing friction for organizations in all industries. Only 30 percent of organizations 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.’

“The growing need for mobile content access by employees is creating significant security headaches for organizations,” said Paula Skokowski, chief marketing officer of Accellion. “How employees access corporate information is changing, and organizations 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 there is clear need for organizations to develop mobile content access policies and functionality.

Other findings from the report include:
· Sixty-three percent of organizations 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 24% 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.