On Tuesday, Symantec mobile application management technology stemming from the acquisition last month of Nukona, a brand Symantec plans to drop soon in favor of its own.

Symantec's latest product falls within its endpoint-protection portfolio, striking at the heart of what corporations are looking for today: locking down data on a mobile device that belongs to an employee. The BYOD trend has brought worrying how to prevent tablet- and smartphone-toting employees from sending corporate e-mail through personal Gmail accounts or file-sharing services like Dropbox or SugarSync.

While preventing malware infections is a concern, controlling the use of data is the bigger problem for corporations. "Malware on mobile devices right now is a pretty minor consideration for companies," Jack Gold, analyst and founder of J.Gold Associates, says. "What is a problem is data leakage and the ability for people who have mobile devices to lose corporate data."

Symantec is providing the ability to wrap corporate applications with a layer of code that prevents data from leaving the phone, unless it is in compliance with corporate policies. By sealing the application, people can use their mobile phone as they choose for personal tasks without risk to corporate data. The technology, which is available as on-premise software or through software over the Internet, can manage Apple iOS, Google Android and HTML5 apps.

Symantec also has technology for managing company-issued mobile devices, which don't have to make the same concessions as with employees' phones and tablets. Symantec acquired Odyssey Software in March to manage Apple iPads and iPhones. Apple support is a must-have, given how the company has ended Microsoft dominance in the enterprise with the adoption of mobile devices. One in five information workers, such as executives and salespeople, use an Apple product, according to the latest figures from Forrester Research.