Facing the Realities of the ?Bring Your Own Device? Era

Facing the Realities of the ‘Bring Your Personal Device’ Era











London, UK (PRWEB) Could 29, 2012

1 of the major providers of Digital Certificates worldwide, today announced outcomes of a survey revealing how the introduction of employee owned devices to access network resources is becoming a popular but developing concern for Enterprise CEOs, CISOs and IT administrators. GlobalSign has published a white paper that supplies greatest practices surrounding implementing a secure, inexpensive, and non-intrusive approach to BYOD.

Completed by 150 IT experts that attended Infosecurity Europe 2012 in London in April, the survey indicated that 67% of IT professionals expressed expanding issues regarding employees accessing sensitive corporate info through their own mobile devices. BYOD in the workplace advantages both the employee and employer, escalating productivity and raising job satisfaction levels by affording workers additional flexibility and freedom. Nonetheless, security and employee privacy issues continue to hamper the adoption of formal BYOD policies within Enterprises.


59% of professionals surveyed do not yet have a formal BYOD safety program in place
Corporate issued devices as nicely as personal owned devices accessing sensitive data and network services were a concern to 62% of participants
Microsoft Exchange, Wi-Fi, VPN are the most common resources requiring BYOD access
Over half of respondents reported that BYOD is currently occurring inside their organisation of 200 or a lot more personnel

GlobalSign conducted the survey to coincide with the European launch of its iOS Identity Certificate resolution that safeguards corporate networks by only enabling authorised people and devices to permitted resources such as Wi-Fi and Corporate email. iOS Identity Certificates are easily delivered “over-the-air” to authorized staff through GlobalSign’s Enterprise PKI (ePKI) remedy. The method of maintaining “bad guys” out without relinquishing employee manage of their individual devices is the “middle-ground” Enterprise should focus on.

“Organisations are holding out for all encompassing, but impractical BYOD security options that treat a non-corporate owned mobile device like a corporate laptop or desktop ”, stated Lila Kee, Chief Item Officer for GlobalSign. “BYOD policies are yet to be tried and legally tested, and mobile devices are extremely individual items, which is why organisations really should instead concentrate on the one particular or two high productivity applications that could advantage from simply managed access manage, and apply an appropriate answer such as GlobalSign’s iOS Identity Certificates.”

Organisations can acquire iOS Identity Certificates for as handful of as 5 users, starting at an introductory provide of £285 for 1 year validity certificates. Other volume pricing and validity periods are offered.

For a lot more information on GlobalSign’s iOS Authentication remedy, please go to http://www.globalsign.co.uk/ios-authentication/ or download our newest white paper at http://www.globalsign.co.uk/resources/taking-byod-too-far-white-paper.pdf

About GlobalSign

Established in 1996 and as a WebTrust accredited public certificate authority, GlobalSign provides publicly trusted SSL Certificates, EV SSL, Managed SSL Services, Code Signing for use on all platforms like mobile devices. Its Trusted Root remedy uses the widely embedded GlobalSign Root CA certificates to offer quick PKI trust for Microsoft Certificate Services and Internal PKI, eliminating the fees of using untrusted Root Certificates. Its partnership with Adobe to supply Certified Document Services (CDS) enables secure digitally signed PDF documents, certified transcripts and e-invoices. These core Digital Certificate options let its thousands of authenticated buyers to conduct secure on the web transactions, data transfer, distribution of tamper-proof code, and protection of online identities for secure email and access manage. The company has a history of innovation within the online safety sector and has offices in the US, UK, Belgium, Japan, and China.

GMO Internet Group    

GMO Web Group is a major force in the Internet business supplying one particular of the most comprehensive ranges of Net services worldwide. The group is the best provider of domain registration, web hosting, ecommerce, and payment processing solutions in Japan and operates a host of other Internet services including global on the internet safety services, search engine marketing and on-line securities trading. At the center of the group is GMO World wide web, Inc. headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. Please go to http://www.gmo.jp/en for additional facts.

For further particulars please make contact with:

Steve Waite                         

GMO GlobalSign Ltd.                    

+44 () 1622 766766 / +32 16 891900             

press(at)globalsign(dot)com























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