Mobile security measures are relatively common, but app-level protection reveals deficits. Large companies are generally wider than smaller ones. These are the results of TecChannel in the study "Mobile Security 2015". More than 600 experts from large, medium and small companies participated in an online survey in cooperation with security specialists Baramundi Software , Kobil Systems , mediaTest digital and TüV Nord .
Mobile Security Part 1: Companies underestimate the risks
Mobile Security Part 2: The biggest shortcomings of companies
Companies neglect mobile applications
52.6 percent of companies use an MDM solution and another 25.6 percent plan to introduce it. A good 45 percent consider it important or very important that the MDM system is integrated into overarching frameworks such as a client management system.
34.1 percent use a solution for mobile application management (MAM). 26 percent plan this. Only 33.4 percent have connected an MAM solution to an MDM system.
Only 36.6 percent are working with blacklisting / whitelisting mobile apps. However, 30.1 percent have corresponding plans.
40.1 percent have installed mobile security suites on end devices, another 26.5 percent still want to do this. One third of respondents have no plans in this respect.
A good half (51.9 percent) encrypts data on mobile devices.
VPN connections to corporate data are widespread at 71.5 percent, especially in larger companies. Identity and access management measures (61.9 percent) and security certificates (59.1 percent) are also frequently used.
Policies for the procurement and use of mobile devices exist in 50.9 percent of cases. When it comes to mobile apps, the value is only 37.6 percent.
Companies doubt the protective effect
There is a great deal of uncertainty: a majority of those questioned doubt the protective effect of the security measures taken in your company.
Only for 30.4 percent do the protective measures taken "definitely provide sufficient protection". Larger companies are more optimistic with 37.7 percent.
50.1 percent consider the protective effect to be "possibly insufficient". For another 9.5 percent, it is definitely not enough. Particularly skeptical are survey participants from the company and management.
The most important factors for more mobile security
Raising employee awareness is by far the most important factor for greater mobile security from a business perspective.
The three most important factors for more mobile security from the point of view of the respondents: Awareness of the employees, better securing of apps and mobile devices by the providers and more human resources.
Participants from the management level see the providers particularly in the obligation. A better protection by the manufacturers is ranked first for them. Only then does the sensitization of the employees rank.
