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The Growing Threat of Mobile Malware and Its Impact on BYOD

Although smartphones and tablets are used in the workplace, IT professionals have, in a survey of 3,300 IT professionals from 22 countries, expressed concern over the lack of restrictions in place to prevent sensitive corporate data from escaping.

The management of security policies and placing controls on device activity by mobile device management is also noted, in the survey, to have increased in interest. However, not much input was offered on real deployments of the technology.