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For all the benefits BYOD programs bring to productivity and mobility, allowing employees to access corporate resources from their personal devices – over which IT teams have no visibility, much less control – has its obvious risks. More than half of organizations have BYOD policies in place or plan to adopt them, and some sources say it’s as high as 85%.

The risk is augmented by the growing adoption of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) practices in the workplace. Additionally, on top of being vulnerable to many of the same threats affecting other devices, like phishing, mobile devices are prone to attack vectors like malicious apps, network threats such as man-in-the-middle attacks, and various OS exploits. And organizations are increasingly being hit harder: 62% of affected companies said their mobile breaches were “major” and 41% said they were “major with lasting repercussions” requiring costly remediation and cleanup. According to Verizon’s 2019 Mobile Security Index, 1 in every 3 organizations said they suffered a data breach involving a mobile device – up from 27% in 2018. It’s no surprise then that mobile has become a highly-appealing target for cyber attackers.

Almost the same amount (75%) of respondents say mobile devices are essential to business workflows. A joint Samsung-Oxford Economics 2018 report on enterprise mobility points out that “modern work is mobile work” with nearly 80% of interviewed IT and business leaders saying employees cannot do their jobs effectively without a mobile phone.

The “modern” environment includes not just traditional endpoints such as desktops and laptops, but also mobile platforms which are increasingly becoming the preferred way employees engage with their organization.

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