TRENDING
CONTROLLING
DATA RISK
IN THE BYOD
ONSLAUGHT
The BYOD era is in full swing, posing a higher level
of data security risk to enterprises. CIOs are faced
with balancing the needs of workers to be more
mobile and have more choice with the needs of
the enterprise to protect its data regardless of the
delivery channel. Nizar Elfarra, Pre Sales Director,
CommVault, discusses areas that CIOs need to
keep in mind while evaluating data management
solutions in the BYOD era.
D
ata protection has always
been a challenge, even when
data flow was, more or less,
confined to a closed network system.
Now, we have the BYOD era in which
your employees and contractors
basically feel they should be able
to use whatever device they want
to create information, share it and
retrieve it at will.
million in use by 2017, up from an
estimated 69 million in 2014.
It makes previous risk mitigation
issues look relatively simple. The
challenge and potential for risk will
only increase. IDC forecasted that by
2017, the number of global workers
bringing their own smart phones
to work will reach 328 million, up
from the estimated 175 million
workers doing so in 2014. Companypurchased smart phones are also
on the rise, with an anticipated 88
The numbers tell the story: BYOD and
the flexibility it gives our highly mobile
workers are here to stay. Happy as
employees may be to use mobile devices,
it presents an enormous challenge to
CIOs who must set new standards and
policies across the enterprise to protect
data and mitigate risk.
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Tablets, too, are on a fast trajectory.
Forrester Research reports that
by 2017, nearly one in five tablet
purchases will be made directly by
companies. That equates to roughly
68 million tablets flooding the
workplace.
CIOs are working with their IT teams
to put into place systems, rules and
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