Speaking at the recent NetIQ Rethinking Security conference in Sydney, IDC Asia-Pacific associate vice president Simon Piff told delegates that, according to a recent IDC APAC research report entitled ICT Top 10 Security Predictions, mobility and BYOD had increased the complexity of security this year.

Mobility

The enterprise adoption of consumer devices such as the iPad by C-level executives was making things harder for IT managers, according to Piff.

This was because CEOs wanted tablets so they could read their emails. In some cases, IT managers were asked to make their CEOs exempt from the organisation's security rules so they could access their email anywhere.

"Embedded in the `I want an iPad with email' discussion is the unspoken but implicitly expected security," he said.