The explosion of smartphones and tablets is only serving to intensify the trend of increased use of employee-owned devices in the workplace. A recent survey conducted by Enterasys Networks among attendees of Interop Las Vegas recently showed that IT professionals are conflicted about the consumerization of IT, particularly when it comes to security.
"IT is struggling to strike a balance between enabling productivity by allowing an ever-growing list of new devices, and maintaining appropriate levels of compliance and security," said Ram Appalaraju, vice president of marketing at Enterasys Networks.
That's never been more evident than it is today. Here's a look at what IT is saying about the challenges of the Consumerization of IT.
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70 percent of IT respondents are concerned about personal mobile devices such as iPads, iPhones, and Android devices connecting to the corporate network.
84 percent of respondents say their corporate network is protected from devices that are unpatched or poorly managed.
One-third of respondents do not have a policy on the use of corporate devices for personal purposes.
46 percent do not have a policy around the use of social networking applications.
78 percent of IT pros use personal devices for business-related purposes or use corporate devices to connect to personal applications, and 35 percent of IT pros admit to violating their own corporate policy.
Respondents estimated that 42 percent of employees and 50 percent of executives use personal devices for business-related purposes or use corporate devices to connect to personal applications.
Security breaches are still commonplace, with respondents averaging slightly more than one security breach over the past 12 months.
Sixty-three percent of respondents were worried about decreased employee productivity, yet 62 percent noted that improved employee productivity is a somewhat or very influential factor in allowing employees to use their own devices, followed by cost savings (51 percent) and employee demand and satisfaction (35 percent).
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