Mobile Identity: The New Enterprise Perimeter

New Survey of Enterprise IT Decision Makers Reveals Significant Concern About Protecting Corporate Data As Users Go Mobile

Symplified Mobile Identity Research: Key Findings

Identity and mobility are rapidly converging, transforming identity into the new enterprise perimeter.

As the adoption of cloud-based applications increases and more IT departments embrace BYOD, employees, contractors, partners and customers are accessing corporate applications and data from multiple devices across all global regions.

The resulting benefits – productivity gains, customer satisfaction, cost savings, greater efficiency – are juxtaposed by an increased security risk of exposing sensitive personal and corporate information.

Symplified Mobile Identity Research: Key Findings

73% of enterprises today manage

identities for mobile employees; 44%

manage identities for contractors.

42% are very/extremely

concerned about security of corporate

data accessed via mobile devices.

Symplified Mobile Identity Research: Key Findings

More than 1/2 enable mobile users to access SharePoint and Oracle;

1/4 allow access to Salesforce.

Symplified Mobile Identity Research: Key Findings

About The Research

About the research: Research methodology: Symplified commissioned a survey conducted October 12-13, 2013 among 63 IT decision makers at companies with 3,000 or more employees. Participants completed an online survey designed by Lawless Research LLC and programmed via Qualtrics, Inc. The margin of error is +/- 12 percentage points at the 95 percent level of confidence.

About Symplified

Symplified was founded on the principle that identity is central to enterprise security. Today the company delivers an identity management services platform that manages user identities and access across any device or application, located on premises or in the cloud, anywhere in the world. Symplified is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado. Learn more at www.symplified.com.