Trends Report

Brief: Data Wrapping Promises Strong Mobile Data Security And A Positive User Experience

Large Security Teams With A Mature Mobile Environment Should Test This Technology Today, Others Should Wait

January 27th, 2015
Tyler Shields, null
Tyler Shields
With contributors:
Stephanie Balaouras , Heidi Shey , Andrew Hewitt , John Kindervag

Summary

Data wrapping claims to allow protection of corporate data from any device regardless of whether that data is at rest or in transit across the device, network, and application layers. An up-and-coming technology in the mobile security space, data wrapping, offers many benefits, mainly transparency and control over corporate data spanning the entire data life cycle, and a better user experience for employees who can't even detect the presence of the technology on their devices. While this technology is certainly promising, it has some implementation hurdles and costs to take into consideration. In this report, Forrester analyzes the pros and cons of data wrapping and examines whether the technology will be a good fit for the mobile security challenges facing enterprise security and risk (S&R) professionals.

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