CA, Inc. : Enterprises fail to implement strong mobile security policies

Publication: Fierce MobileIT, 3 Jan 2014

Enterprises are failing to implement strong mobile security policies due to a lack of awareness about the security risks posed by BYOD devices, judges Arun Bhattacharya, senior director of product marketing for enterprise mobility at CA Technologies.

"Until recently, the technologies available were limited solely to device management, not end-to-end secure mobility management that takes into consideration the data, applications and integration with enterprise security policies. Over time, devices have become more sophisticated and now demand a more advanced level of security," Bhattacharya tells Sue Poremba, a contributor to the EMCVoice column on Forbes.

In addition, Bhattacharya believes that the absence of a "catastrophic security event" tied to data leakage from a mobile device has made firms complacent.

A survey (.pdf) conducted last year by B2B International on behalf of Kaspersky Lab found that while 65 percent of 2,895 IT professionals polled said BYOD posed a threat to their business, only 14 percent of firms had fully implemented a mobile device security policy.