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

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.