Juniper Research's report also found that the public sector is slower to adopt BYOD than private sector enterprises, and the region with the highest uptake is Western Europe.

The report argues that BYOD poses certain security risks to the company. Report author Nitin Bhas observed that while BYOD has become an 'inevitable' trend for the enterprise, businesses need to create new end-user IT policies and address the key security issues emerging.

Security loopholes were mainly due to the majority of employees' phones and smart devices not having any form of security software loaded, and company materials being unprotected.

The '' is available to download now from the Juniper website.