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A new report from Forrester Research, entitled ‘Navigating Diversity in Operating Systems and Browsers’, has cast more doubt on the future of Internet Explorer (IE) as the browser of choice in the workplace – and BYOD is at the heart of this paradigm shift. “For both OSes and browsers, bring your own (BYO) behaviour has undercut IT’s traditional role in dictating user choices,” report author J.P. Gownder explained.

The LinkedIn Information Security group has conducted a survey of its members, and found that employee satisfaction remains the number one driver of a personal device policy, as well as concluding that iOS is the number one BYOD platform. Reponses from the 160,000-strong group owned by Holger Schulze has resulted in the BYOD & Mobile Security report, and has come up with five main takeaways.

Analyst house Gartner has predicted that, by 2014, there will be more than 1200 mobile customer relationship management (CRM) apps available for download from app stores. And according to the latest forecast, IT leaders need to focus on four skill sets for optimum mobile app strategy...

They both have the potential for huge growth in their respective areas, but a new industry report has shed light on how big the expansion for bring your own device (BYOD) and enterprise mobility management (EMM) could be. Analyst group MarketsandMarkets has assessed that the BYOD and enterprise mobility market will hit $181bn by 2017, with North American accounting for $58.6bn of that figure.

Enterprise mobility, alongside cloud services, have been cited in an industry report as the biggest “game changers” for IT executives. “We are fortunate to live and work in an era and an industry where game-changing developments are plentiful. In the midst of so many developments, it’s important to determine which game-changers truly deserve the moniker,” the CommScope report asserts.

A new report from Wisegate has detailed the various strategies chief security officers (CSOs) use in keeping a handle on BYOD. The report looks at various elements of BYOD strategy, including the security concerns, how to approach mobile device support as well as the device protection vs data protection debate.

Even though a BYOD policy is going to make your employees happier, it will continue to tear out whatever hair’s left in the company IT department. This was the leading line from the 2013 Mobile Enterprise Report authored by wireless specialist iPass and MDM provider MobileIron, which had 477 responses, a majority of which were from IT directors or similar.

The key findings of (ISC)2 results were that companies supporting BYOD improves employees’ experience and reduces IT costs, and that security managers feel their companies need to be more clued up on cloud-based and application security.