A survey from access control management specialist Courion found that one-fifth of large IT decision makers said their business had no plan to block employee-owned devices from accessing the corporate network, and 10 percent of the respondents admitted to facing data breaches after the loss of a mobile device with access to their network.

Courion polled 988 IT folks at large enterprises regarding their security concerns. The company found that 57 percent of IT organizations said they could effectively control access to their corporate network on campus, but that number drops to 40 percent when it comes to remote access via smartphones and laptops and 34 percent when it comes to access via the cloud.

Interestingly, 69 percent of enterprises say their employees are using personal mobile devices to connect to the corporate network.

"Mobile devices are now accepted as necessary tools for productivity in the enterprise, regardless of how they affect data security. That is the new reality," Dave Fowler, senior vice president of product and marketing for Courion, said in a statement. "Companies are scrambling to keep up with the information access vulnerabilities and compliance violations created by mobile devices that access and store confidential information. The right solution can bring the same strength of protection to mobile devices that companies have deployed internally."

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