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Mobilization of the workforce, distribution of enterprise employees and wireless technology advances are driving high demand for secure mobile workforce solutions.

The Remote Access Landscape

As the boundaries of the traditional enterprise continue to expand, demand for secure mobile workforce solutions is growing at a strong pace. This demand is being addressed with a multitude of solutions - those that deliver the highest levels of productivity, security and IT control will set the pace for the marketplace. The numbers may vary somewhat between the predictions of various market experts, but they share a strong common denominator - demand will continue to grow for the foreseeable future.

Following are a number of statistics and predictions illustrating the trends and keep driving the secure mobile workforce solution marketplace.

General Market Statistics

• The single largest security risk to mobile devices and laptops is not malware and other security breaches, but simply loss and theft.  81% of U.S. firms have lost laptops containing sensitive information.
  
  Source: Utimaco Software AG, 2007

• Results of a national survey of U.S. white-collar workers commissioned by the nonprofit, independent organization  ISACA (formerly the Information Systems Audit and Control Association) highlight the following:

  • Sixty-three percent of white collar employees are not very concerned or are not concerned at all about the security of their information while at work.

  • Thirty-five percent of employees have violated their company’s information technology policies at least once.

  • Fifteen percent of employees have used peer-to-peer filesharing at least once at their place of business.

  • Seventy-four percent of people who have downloaded personal software onto a work computer believe it is not a risky behavior.
    
    Source: ISACA, October 31 2007

• A CDW Government Consultancy study report says during the past year, telework growth in the federal government also outpaced the private sector: 35% of Federal teleworkers started teleworking, compared to 10% of private-sector teleworkers. It also said 44% of federal-employee respondents to the survey indicate that they have the option to telework – up 6% from 2006 – while 15% of private-sector employee respondents have that option.
  
  Source: Network World, March 19 2007

• Researchers at the University of Washington have examined all major data breaches since 1980 and are able to shed some interesting light on the trends in breaches over the years.

  • 1/3 of 550 breaches were attributable to malicious hacks between 1980 and 2006

  • 60 percent of the above happened as a result to organizational mismanagement

  • Universities have been the hardest hit accounting for 30 percent of reported incidents. However, they account for less than one percent of lost records.
    
    Source: Network World, March 12 2007

• According to a recent survey by the IT security company PKware, one-third of security and IT managers at the 2007 RSA conference don't secure their home files or communications. Ironically, the survey showed that 86% or more than 100 respondents were very concerned or extremely concerned about their confidential personal information falling into the wrong hands, but they don’t do anything about it. 
  
  Source: Information Week, March 9 2007

• A 2006 study of 201 companies by IT Policy Compliance Group, found that the vast majority of companies -- about 70 percent -- had suffered between 3 and 22 breaches of sensitive data in the past year. A whopping 20 percent have experienced 22 or more. "Breach" was defined as unauthorized access of data, which includes loss, theft, and inadvertent viewing.
  
  Source: Dark Reading, March 7 2007

• In a survey of 426 IT professionals globally, Credant Technologies found that 72% of those they spoke to felt that the best way to protect data is through encryption. What is alarming about their survey is that only 20% of the respondents said they actually deploy mobile encryption (for data at rest or in flight).
  
  Source: Credant Technologies Annual Survey, October 2006

• In the last six months in London, 63,135 mobile phones (an average of three phones per taxi), 5,838 PDAs and 4,973 laptops have been left in licensed taxi cabs.
  
  Source: The Register, January 2006

The Costs of Security Breaches

• The average security breach can cost a company between $90 and $305 per lost record, according to a new study of 28 companies surveyed by Forrester Research.
  
  Source: Forrester Research, April 2007

• Javelin Strategy & Research Inc., a publisher of banking and other financial reports in Pleasanton, Ca., which conducts an annual survey of 5,000 U.S. households on identity and credit-card fraud, estimates that banks suffered losses of approximately $4 billion over the past two years in data-breach-related activity
  
  Source: Wall Street Journal February 22 2007

• Since January 2005, about 100 million records containing sensitive personal information have been breached in laptop and other computer thefts at corporations and government agencies around the U.S., according to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a nonprofit consumer group in San Diego.
  
  Source: Wall Street Journal, February 27 2007

• A recent study by the Ponemon Institute, an industry consulting firm in Elk Rapids, Mich., found that 81% of nearly 500 companies surveyed lost one or more laptop computers containing sensitive information in the previous 12 months. Ponemon said the average cost of a data breach is $182 per record, or an average of $4.8 million per breach for companies affected.
  
  Source: Wall Street Journal, February 27 2007

IT Security Spending Trends

• Security spending as a percentage of IT budget is slowly increasing and thus IT security executives become more financially independent  Most executives find implementing strategic security measures still hard to do and continue to concentrate more on tactical fixes. But compared to last year’s study more companies start to think about security as a strategic instrument for the future.
  
  Source: Pricewaterhousecoopers, Global State of Information Survey, December 2006

• IT security spending projections decreased in the last quarter of 2006, with CIOs predicting IT spending increases of 5.8% over the next 12 months. That's down from expectations in the previous quarter that spending would rise by 6.5% during the next year, according to the quarterly CIO Magazine Tech Poll released Friday.
  
  Source: CIO Magazine, December 30 2006

• Organizations most successful in meeting compliance demands are spending $1 on IT security for every $30,000 in revenue, assets under management, or agency budget.
  
  Source: IT Policy Compliance Group 2006

Public Wireless LAN Trends

• A study conducted by Aventail Corp has revealed that more and more companies are planning on adopting secure remote access solutions to meet the demands from mobile devices and wireless LANs. The survey interviewed 604 IT decision-makers and 85 per cent of them said that they plan on adding secure remote access solutions over the next 12 months into their organization.
  
  Source: eChannel Line April 4 2007

• Based on a survey of 130 business users, it is costing companies 10 times as much to manage wireless services and devices as to manage wireline offerings.
  
  Source: Aberdeen Group, February 2007

• In 4Q06, worldwide Wi-Fi revenue increased by 20% year-over-year, up from US$845.7 million in 4Q05. Total worldwide Wi-Fi revenue for 4Q06 was slightly over $1.0 billion
  
  Source: InStat Wireless, 4Q2006

Broadband Trends

• Global Broadband Subscribers grew nearly 7 percent to exceed 242 million in 2006 and 2Q06 net additions were 15.5 million, down 10 percent from 1Q06. The United States continues to lead with 50.6 million, followed by China with 45 million
  
  Source: Broadband Trends September 2006

• A recent report by broadbandtrends.com found that global broadband subscribers have now exceeded 242 million, including 162 million DSL subscribers at the end of 2Q06.
  
  Source: Broadbrand Trends March 31, 2006

• Global broadband subscribers are expected to grow from 208 million at the end of 2005 to more than 477 million by the end of 2011.
  
  Source: Broadbrand Trends March 31 2006

• Asia Pacific will continue to be the largest broadband market, followed closely by EMEA - DSL will remain the leading broadband technology with 64 percent of subscribers by 2011 and China will become the single largest broadband country by 2008.
  
  Source: Broadbrand Trends March 31, 2006