January 30, 2012
Mobile Security Management Issues Get More Complicated
By Erin Harrison, Executive Editor, Strategic Initiatives
With the proliferation of smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices, mobile security management is without a doubt top of mind for CIOs in today’s enterprises.
And smartphone penetration continues to climb. In fact, Gartner (News - Alert) predicts that sales of smartphones to end users will hit 645 million in 2012, up from 461 million in 2011.
The benefits of the “rush to mobile” is resulting in the increased adoption of so-called BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) policies in organizations, as well as cloud-based services and unified communications, a recent Computerworld article pointed out.
“But 2012 is also likely to be the year when mobile gets away from large enterprises. IT shops desperately need mobile management, internal app libraries and well-thought-out mobile security systems,” wrote the magazine’s editor-in-chief, Scot Finnie... Read More
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