Enterprise Smartphone Security

TechCrunch today wrote about a survey taken by Credant Technologies of 300 senior IT staff managers. They found that only 4 out of 10 IT people are encrypting for security on laptops and that 9 out of 10 company smartphones have access to those laptops- that may or may not be secure. Also, 81% of corporate smartphone users can directly access corporate information, with no access restrictions.

I find it strange that enterprises do not have stricter mandates for IT security. My prospective is that of an an identity theft fearing consumer, forced into user passcode scrutiny for every different piece of private information I access. It must be an issue for IT mangers to create a secure login protocol that does not alienate the user but it looks like many enterprises still have some way to go.