You need to stay competitive and allowing users to work anywhere, anytime is one of the ways your business keeps its edge. However, in some cases this means using personal devices to access data in unsanctioned cloud applications. In IT’s opinion this is risky behavior and something they are not comfortable with. Your users don’t engage in this behavior out of any malicious intent, but to innovate and improve productivity.

However the increased use of mobility and cloud can increase the risk of loss of data or a breach. In parallel the more apps users need to access or the more “security” IT imposes generally impacts the user experience – especially on small mobile devices. Ultimately, the burden falls to IT to find a solution to balance innovation with risk, despite their increasingly complex environments – more mobile users on more platforms, more user stores, more apps, more passwords, but not more resources.

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