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While 69 percent of organizations have employees using personal devices to connect to their corporate network, more than one-fifth, or 21 percent, currently have no policy in place to govern the use of personal mobile devices on their network. These new figures, released recently from security-products firm Courion, suggest many security leaders are still ignoring the need to address mobile-device management among their employees.
But according to Chris Silva, Senior Vice President, Research and Service Delivery at security firm IANS, having a mobile device policy in place is the most important step to handling the risk inherent to personal mobile-device use.