STAMFORD, Conn.-Mobile users are not properly securing mobile devices, even as use of wireless technologies in the workplace continues to rise, according to research firm Gartner Inc.
“Wireless mobility is the greatest change to occur in corporate data collection and distribution in the past decade,” said John Girard, research vice president at Gartner. “However, with this change comes new threats. The solution for enterprises is to institute sound management policies to protect mobile information assets and contain costs.”
According to Gartner, 90 percent of mobile devices lack the protection necessary to ward off hackers, and the top security threat to mobile users is loss of a mobile device containing corporate data.
Some key tactics to improving wireless security, according to Gartner, include: moving mobile devices into the PC support group, installing PDA firewalls, implementing cost controls and purchasing mobile management tools.
