IT pros have long been concerned about the potential for security breaches with increased employee use of mobile devices, including smartphones and tablets owned by workers who bring in their own devices from home.

A new survey of 882 IT professionals has quantified those concerns, revealing that one in five organizations (21%) suffered a security breach involving a mobile device sometime in the past, primarily due to connections to malicious Wi-Fi hotspots and malware.

The online survey was conducted by Crowd Research Partners and was sponsored by six top data security vendors: Bitglass; Blancco Technology Group;
Check Point Technologies; Skycure; SnoopWall;
and Tenable Network Security. All six vendors offer various approaches to protecting corporate data used by mobile workers.

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