NEW YORK, USA: While organizations are increasingly using laptops, smartphones, and VPNs to increase employee productivity, they remain unprepared to allow their employees to telework effectively in the case of a natural disaster or other disruption, finds the Cisco's recently announced the results of its nationwide Securing the Mobile Workforce survey.
 
The survey, which was conducted by InsightExpress, was based on interviews with 502 IT decision-makers, from U.S. businesses of all sizes (from 20 employees to more than 10,000) and across five key verticals: health care, retail, finance, government, and education.

Fred Kost, Cisco’s director of security solutions marketing, says the objective of the survey was simple. “With more and more mobile devices coming into enterprises, and that really changing the workspace, we just wanted to try and understand…what people are doing to enable a remote workforce,” he says.

Among the findings, Kost says, one thing that jumped out was the fact that only 15 percent of respondents named security concerns as a key issue preventing them from further enabling remote workers--38 percent simply said their business requirements don’t necessitate it.

(Jeff Goldman, internet.com)