Tuesday, May 17, 2011

78% of IT Professionals Use Personal Devices for Work

A survey of 100 information technology professionals indicates just how much intermingling of "business issued" and "personal" devices now happens at enterprises.

The respondents indicate that 78 percent use personal devices for business-related purposes or use corporate devices to connect to personal applications. It is possible that those ratios do not apply equally to most enterprise employees, since the respondents are among the "most technical" employees at an enterprise.

And though most are worried about the impact such personal devices pose for enterprise security policies, fully 35 percent of the IT professionals say they also violating their corporate policies at least occasionally.

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