More Than One Third of Employees Access Cloud Applications Without IT Jurisdiction
London - January 29, 2014 — UK businesses are struggling to maintain security and control in an increasingly cloud and mobile-centric IT landscape, according to new research underwritten by Okta, a leading provider of cloud-based identity management. The research, conducted amongst 200+ UK IT decision makers by independent research company Loudhouse, found that whilst almost 80 per cent of UK IT decision makers plan to increase the number of cloud applications across their organisation this year, only 9 per cent feel confident they have complete visibility of all the applications currently used by employees. To download, the report, please visit: http://www.okta.com/resources/identity-management-uk-report.html
The research uncovered a number of key findings concerning visibility and complexity challenges associated with the adoption of cloud applications in the enterprise and suggests that UK organisations are grappling with cloud growing pains. Key findings include:
- Employees are believed to be accessing a minimum of eight cloud applications per month at work, with more than one third (37 per cent) doing so without IT jurisdiction.
- 49 per cent of organisations have already rolled out iPads / tablets to many employees and 47 per cent are planning rollouts in the next 12 months.
- Only one in three IT decision makers (32 per cent) are comfortable they could pull together a list of access privileges and be confident that these are accurate.