Smartphone access is integral for many employees to perform their jobs, and giving workers the freedom to choose their own devices as well as permitting the use of personal devices for work purposes are now concessions made by IT departments nationwide. Persuading iPhone users to work on Android (and vice versa) are essentially pointless endeavors, and carrying two phones is inconvenient.

A recent report from security firm Bitglass surveyed IT experts, and found that 85% of organizations enable BYOD policies, citing employee mobility (74%) and employee satisfaction (54%) as the top two reasons for allowing employees, contractors, and other related parties to bring their own devices. However, the convenience of BYOD creates a particularly large attack surface for malicious actors to harvest information from these organizations.

Per the report, 30% of respondents indicate that security concerns are the leading inhibitor to implementing BYOD. For organizations that do permit BYOD, data leakage is the primary worry for 61% of IT experts, with just over half of respondents citing unauthorized data access, inability to control uploads and downloads, lost or stolen devices, and malware as additional security concerns. Perhaps most soberingly, just over a quarter (27%) know that devices accessing corporate data are infected, with 43% reporting that they are unsure.