Consumerization of IT a Double Edged Sword

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Consumerization of IT a Double Edged Sword 70 percent of IT respondents are concerned about personal mobile devices such as iPads, iPhones, and Android devices connecting to the corporate network. No Title 84 percent of respondents say their corporate network is protected from devices that are unpatched or poorly managed. No Title One-third of respondents […]

May 23, 2011
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1Consumerization of IT a Double Edged Sword

70 percent of IT respondents are concerned about personal mobile devices such as iPads, iPhones, and Android devices connecting to the corporate network.

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84 percent of respondents say their corporate network is protected from devices that are unpatched or poorly managed.

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One-third of respondents do not have a policy on the use of corporate devices for personal purposes.

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46 percent do not have a policy around the use of social networking applications.

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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.

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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.

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Security breaches are still commonplace, with respondents averaging slightly more than one security breach over the past 12 months.

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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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