94 percent of IT security professionals using third party apps on their mobile

SANTA CLARA, USA: A flash poll conducted at Infosecurity Europe by Centrify Corp., the leader in unified identity services across data centre, cloud and mobile environments, has found that 94 percent of IT security professionals use third party applications on their mobile devices for work, with 82 percent using up to 10 apps.

Darren Gross, EMEA director, Centrify said: "Applications are now at the heart of corporate IT and have become a vital part of how employees get the job done whilst either in the office or on the move. Removing access to applications isn't an option - in fact it would create more problems than it would solve. But the risk for organisations is that the more cloud-based or mobile apps employees interact with, the more they create islands of identity that become harder for IT to track and manage.

"How do you authorise access for thousands of employees across multiple devices and platforms? Let alone de-provision them when they leave the company. Identity and access can often be overlooked, but unless enterprises can find a unified way to securely identify individuals, they risk their business coming to a shuddering halt."