Smart authentication to tackle BYOD issues

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Smart Insights Report "Smart authentication to tackle BYOD issues" provides a comprehensive analysis of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) market, authentication solutions, their probable future adoption scenarios and impact on the smart authentication solutions market.

BYOD experience relates to employee-owned devices being used for work. Such an employee mindset evolution may trigger changes in the whole corporate IT ecosystem, as the BYOD trend implies corporate data to travel outside a secure local network. This is why corporate IT departments are striving to adopt authentication solutions to be used on employee-owned mobile devices to secure corporate data.

Smart mobile authentication devices ensure that only the right person with right information access privileges gets his hand on the corporate data. Traditional smart solutions used for logical access include smart cards, One-Time-Password (OTP) generators and USB tokens. Today, we can state as a fact that software solutions in some way cannibalize smart authentication solutions.

Nonetheless, this report establishes that BYOD software authentication solution shipments that will reach 223 million units by 2018 (CAGR of 27 percent) will not overthrow more secure and robust smart hardware authenticators. BYOD hardware authentication solution shipments will reach 343 million units by 2018 (CAGR of 46 percent).

Smart authentication to tackle BYOD issues While the Smart Insights Report "Smart authentication to tackle BYOD issues" describes BYOD smart authentication solutions market current situation and anticipates its development in the near future, it also:

- analyzes the market evolution, obstacles and solutions for business development,

- provides readers with a thorough understanding of the complexity of the BYOD authentication ecosystem and how it might be reshaped,

- provides forecasts on BYOD authentication solution shipments, including smart cards, USB tokens, One-Time-Password (OTP) generators, secure microSD and software authentication solution shipments in volume.