iPhone in demand by corporates
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21 October 2009
IT departments are being pressured to support the iPhone, despite the device having a lack of enterprise features
The iPhone is the mobile device that IT managers are most frequently asked to connect to corporate networks according to a survey by enterprise mobility firm Good.
The survey found that 84% of UK IT managers had received at least one such request. According to the report, 80% of organisations have seen an increase in the number of employees bringing their own devices into work and requesting they be allowed access to the network.
In fact, 72% of IT managers said they believed staff would find other ways to access the network using their own devices if their demands were not met.
Interesting survey. DeviceLock (an endpoint security provider) conducted a similar survey and found that while 65 per cent of IT decision makers recognised that unauthorised users could access valuable company data through the iPhone, 64 per cent said they had not taken any steps to secure company data against this threat.
Given the high number of companies without adequate protection against data breaches via an iPhone, the survey also found that 40 per cent of businesses knowingly allow staff to download company data onto removable devices without any security provision - quite worrying really.
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