The Risky Business of Mobile Device Compliance in the Workplace: A Nokia sponsored study

In researching whether or not businesses have taken proper measures to ensure compliance and offer protection from security breaches, the results show risky business when it comes to proper levels of data protection for lost or stolen devices and regulatory requirements that extend beyond just in-office communications.

Implementing a mobile device policy can help to shield from some of these threats and is particularly vital for smaller businesses who are at higher risk. According to the study, they "face a greater risk of violations with just 32.4 percent implementing formal mobile compliance policies."

The report also found that, "40 percent of respondents have no measures at all to manage mobile data tracking, back up and archiving for regulatory compliance purposes."

These numbers are even more alarming considering that almost half of all the respondents said, "a minimum of 25 percent of all mobile devices in their organization carry mission critical applications and information." With this amount of information easily available on mobile devices, the need to have security measures and policies in place cannot be ignored.

Responsibility for carrying out these protections and policies lie on both the IT executives and C–Level Executives who must work together to ensure both added levels of productivity and efficiency  as well as maintaining protection and compliance at all times.

Research for the report, "Comply on the Fly: Keeping Pace with Management Challenges of Mobile Data Management," was sponsored by InfoExpress, Nokia (NYSE: NOK), Sybas.

Source: TMC Net

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