According to Goode Intelligence's Mobile Security Survey (Part Three) 40 percent of organisations are planning to deploy mobile phone data encryption. Of these organisations, one hundred percent plan to include encryption on employees’ mobile phones from September 2010 onwards.
This survey, carried out in partnership with Acumin Consulting is the most comprehensive vendor-independent survey on mobile phone security to date and provides a snapshot of the state of mobile security within organisations across the globe.
“The threat of data loss from a mobile phone is still relatively low but with the rising adoption of data-centric applications on smartphones, including enterprise applications and financial services, we feel that the threat will rise from the second-half of 2010 onwards” said Alan Goode, Managing Director, Goode Intelligence.
“Research for the new GI Analyst Report on Smartphone Security has discovered that enterprises still do not feel that the threat to company data stored on mobile phones is high enough to warrant protection in the same manner that a laptop or a USB memory stick is. Only 33 percent of organisations polled are protecting their mobile phones with encryption products and services. However, you can now store gigabytes of information on mobile phones that is as business critical as the information that employees are storing on their laptops or USB memory sticks.”
The survey reveals that while nearly 43 percent of organisations currently feel that the threat from mobile phone data loss is low, this number changes significantly for the perceived threat by 2011 with only 29 percent continuing to believe that the risk is low while 29 percent forecast that the risk will be medium and 28 percent feel that the risk will be high or very high.
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