Do organisations know what mobile devices employees are connecting to enterprise networks with? According to a SANS Institute survey, the answer seems to be... no.
The analyst reports only 9% of survey-participant organisations are "fully aware" of the devices accessing their networks, while 50% are "vaguely or fairly" aware.
According to SANS Institute, over 60% of organisations allow employees to take devices to work.
The survey involves 500 IT professionals, and reveals a potential business opertunity-- endpoint security tools, which only 20% of organisations are using. From those, more use agent-based (rather than agent-less) tools.
Gartner reports say enterprises are aware of only 80% of devices accessing their networks-- the remaining 20% being unsecured (and possibly jailbroken) mobile devices threatening to introduce malware to network resources.
