CIO Executive Series

Here we are categorizing companies together by the number of mobile phones they support. We see that regardless if the number of phones CIOs support is fewer than 100 or greater than 500, the majority of companies do allow their staff to access corporate data on their personal mobile phones.

According to our CIOES CrowdSource survey, about 50% of businesses allow personal phones to be used for corporate data.  Note that the vast majority of corporate support is for both standard cell phones and Blackberrys.  We will be doing another CIO survey shortly on BYOC – Bring Your Own Computer to work, but for this poll we examined corporate Smart Phones in the Enterprise.

Here’s what you told us YOUR biggest concern with Smartphones is. . .

• To create a company policy that allows a person to carry the least number of devices but still allows for good security, manageability, cost efficiency and control
• Loss of data
• How much complexity would be added to our Smartphone management to add iPhone capability
• Ability to push out information in a readable format from enterprise applications as well as security
• I have no concerns because remote wipe & enforced PINs take care of theft & protects access to information on device
• Data leaving the company/ theft
• Securing corporate data, off-boarding employees with Smartphones
• TCO
• Support
• Ownership/ tax reporting
• Security of remote data and threat management
• Setup
• Knowing what access users have to corporate data
• How to implement intelligent phone applications