Infographic created for SAP, highlighting the challenges of staying connected to work while on vacation, using personal devices. Themes include productivity, data protection, managed mobility, and security.

1. Is Your Mobile Workforce
Beach Ready?
Are you thinking about using your personal mobile
device to stay connected to work on summer vacation?
Does that productivity boost
come with too much of a risk?
When people use mobile apps
for work, there is a
45% increase in productivity
Watch out! Of the 70M
smartphones lost each year,
only 7% are recovered.1
Here are the most popular places to lose
your phone on vacation.2
25% sightseeing
But there is
a security risk since
23% airport
22% hotel
18% public transportation
80%
12% rental car
of BYOD activity is unmanaged.
Can you bear a data breach at the beach?
Sunscreen won’t
protect your data!
73%
of employees said they access
information that could be considered
sensitive or confidential8
67%
Watch out for pickpockets!
The cost of a mobile data breach will
sink you and your company
174M
don’t use a security solution for
their mobile devices1
records were stolen in data breaches4
59%
Average cost of a breach
$5.5M
report that employees circumvent or
disengage security features such as
passwords and key locks6
51%
experience data loss resulting from
employee use of unsecured mobile
devices6
42%
send work related docs BUT
Major causes of a data breach?7
37%
40%
don’t use complex passwords or
change their passwords regularly1
Malicious attacks
35%
Negligence/Human factor
29%
System glitches
There’s no time to relax when
you’re managing mobile security.
Here are some strategies
that IT departments are
implementing today.3
37%
require employees to lock
screens
24%
use security software
Watch out! Criminals and
hackers don’t go on vacation.
21%
While you’re out travelling and exploring
the world, they may be exploring the
confidential data on your device!
17%
More than 75% of all malicious
code has basically one goal:
to steal your data.
use mobile application
management software
make employees report
issues quickly
11%
restrict downloads
7%
build an internal app store
6%
installed location tracking
software on devices
Top mobile threats by type:
28% collects device data
25% tracks user
24% sends content
A comprehensive approach to mobile security is the only way to be sure
you can fully relax on your vacation and when you get back to the office.
Secure your Devices, Apps and
Content with SAP Mobile Secure.
Learn more at sap.com/mobile/emm.
1 Intuition, Post PC Era; 2012.
2 Huffington Post, Most likely places to lose cell phone traveling; 2013.
3 ReadWrite Survey Results: What A Typical BYOD Program Really Looks Like, 2013.
4 Savid Technologies, Infographic: Mobile Security, 2013.
5 Norton, Cybercrime Report; 2013.
6 PR Newswire, Survey Says 51 Percent of Organizations Lose Data Through Mobile Devices,
59 Percent of Employees Dodge Security Controls; 2013.
7 Bank Info Security, Regulations' Impact on Data Breach Costs by Eric Chabrow; 2013.
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