He points to the that Symantec carried out and how it highlighted that organisations are "embracing mobility in a big way," as they see the "business benefits for their employees."

"They highlighted security as an area of concern, along with data leakage," he said.

"But that aside, organisations understand that there are ways to address that, so lost devices will remain an area on the increase, as there are so many more devices and over 70 per cent of organisations have started putting business applications onto tablets and mobile devices."

As more confidential information is going to find its way onto these devices, and with people having two or three of them, so there is now a larger chance of losing a device and having it end up in someone else's hands.

"It will continue to be an area that business have to address from a data breach point of view, and the cost is always going to be lower if they invest into how to stop it from happening in the first place than after the fact," Kopelke said.