Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Mobile, BYOD, and the Enterprise

The consumerization of the mobile and bring-your-own-device trends continues to gain exponential momentum in 2014. According to an infographic published this week in Information Week, 90% of employees use mobile phones at work, and 35% use personal tablets at work. Furthermore, employees use an average of 21 different apps at work. Although email remains the most often used, document-centric apps, including file sharing are now used by more than one in every five employees.

InfoWorld goes a step farther in an article this week, calling CIOs and business leaders to proactively embrace the two trends rather than just reacting to the inevitable employee uptake. InfoWorld cites potential benefits from employee productivity to better communication and engagement with customers.

At Ohanae, we agree that comprehensive adoption of bring-your-own-device (and bring your own cloud services!) and mobile have significant advantages for the business. But, it’s important to adopt technologies that will protect the business against data loss, account compromise, and device theft or misuse.

Cloud Privacy Protection incorporates a suite of capabilities to allow BYOD, mobile, and user selected cloud-based file sync & share in a secure environment. Cloud Privacy Protection includes protection for data in transit to and at rest in the cloud file sync & share provider. It also includes secure file sharing between collaborators, regardless of the mechanism of sharing. Finally, it includes protection for user credentials — the credentials that provide access to raw storage of encrypted data.

With Ohanae’s suite of cloud privacy protection capabilities, enterprises can feel secure in embracing new trends that embrace cloud storage, pervasive mobile use, and bring your own device tablets and laptops.

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