McAfee, Inc. Survey Reveals Device Security and Management Among Biggest Mobility Concerns for Fortune 500 C-Suite
August 02 2010 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
McAfee, Inc. (NYSE:MFE) today announced the results of a Trust
Digital® survey of 150 Fortune 500 CIOs, CTOs and CSOs that reveals
76 percent of respondent organizations are planning at least one
strategic mobility initiative in the next six to 12 months,
including infrastructure integration, offering employee device
choice and increasing productivity through the use of widely
available mobile apps like CRM, ERP and proprietary, in-house
applications. The survey demonstrates that the consumerization of
IT has had a noticeable impact on enterprise IT, especially when it
comes to security.
Device security and management continue to be major concerns for
organizations looking to roll out mobility initiatives. In
addition, application management and compliance management ranked
high on C-level executives’ list of mobility challenges. Further,
the survey reveals that a large percent of these organizations
currently use or support BlackBerry devices and 45 percent are
planning to support the iPhone and Android smartphones as
enterprise devices due to employee demand. Users are no longer
satisfied with carrying two devices (personal and work) or having
one device that will only make calls, enable texting and support
e-mail functionality.
According to the survey, the migration to mobile applications is
underway with 76 percent of companies planning, in the next six to
12 months, to mobilize internal applications other than email for
employee use. In fact, according to another survey by online
measurement company Crowd Science, nearly 40 percent of BlackBerry
users continue to prefer Apple's iPhone as their next smartphone
purchase, while a third of them would also switch to the Android
operating system.
“The coming wave of enterprise mobility is all about the ‘app
phone’--devices like the iPhone or Android that provide laptop-like
support for apps, not just email,” said Todd Gebhart, executive
vice president of Consumer, Mobile and Small Business at McAfee.
“As the proliferation of these consumer technologies into the
enterprise continues, the ability to manage and support the rollout
of mobile applications that enable greater productivity will
continue to be a huge priority for CIOs.”
Trust Digital was acquired by McAfee in June 2010.
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