25/02/2022 08:54 AM

What Bothers Most to C-Level Talking About Mobile Security

From making payments, sending emails, social networking to accessing corporate networks for business, mobile devices are involved in almost every action we perform. More than 70% of web traffic comes from mobile devices. According to the Pew Centre of Research, 95% of Americans own a cell phone, and 77% of them have smartphones. This number is enough to explain how essential tool smartphones have become over a period of time.

Policies, like Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and Work from Home (WFH), are one of the factors that have contributed majorly in making smartphones popular at workplaces. If we talk about work from home, a majority of employees prefer to access their corporate emails and information through mobile phones. No doubt, the benefits of always-connected employees are appreciable. But it also generates a considerable amount of risk for C-Level (or C-Suite) who are responsible for ensuring constant data access from any remote location through any device with minimal security risks to the company. According to iPass’s Mobile Security Report, 92% of security managers said that they are concerned about the security challenges posed by the increasing mobile workforce.