Influx of Wearable Technology in the Workplace Causes Security, Support and Bandwidth Issues says New Ipswitch Survey
October 07 2015 - 8:35AM
Business Wire
IT Pros are Concerned about Wearable
Technology Connected to Company Networks
Ipswitch announced the findings of its 2015 Wearable Technology
Survey that polled 288 IT professionals in the United States. The
survey revealed that more than half of the respondents (52.7
percent) now have users wearing technology to work, a growing
concern for IT pros.
More wearable technology, more concerns for IT pros
IT pros’ top concerns with a high adoption of wearable
technology in the workplace included security breaches (61
percent), more work to support more devices (45 percent) and
decreased network bandwidth (36 percent). When asked if they had IT
policies in place to manage the impact of wearable technology,
nearly two-thirds (66 percent) did not while about one-quarter (24
percent) did have such a policy.
The most common wearable technologies in the workplace, some
of it is company-issued
Even though wearable technology has yet to break through to the
mainstream, 15 percent of all respondents noted that their
companies provided wearable technology to its own workers. The most
popular wearable technology in the workforce, according to survey
respondents, includes watches such as the Apple Watch (46 percent),
fitness bands like Fitbit (42 percent) and health monitoring
devices like QardioArm (17 percent).
“Wearable technology might be convenient for the user, but it’s
inconvenient for IT pros to secure and support,” said Aaron Kelly,
Vice President of Product Management at Ipswitch. “Fortunately, IT
pros can be better prepared to deal with people like me, including
my Apple Watch and Fitbit, with tools to provide total visibility
into network discovery and dependency mapping including Ipswitch
WhatsConnected. A clear picture of what is happening helps to
ensure that wearable technology isn’t going to affect network or
application performance.”
Ipswitch WhatsConnected helps IT pros monitor and manage devices
including wearable technology in the following ways:
- Understand detailed physical
connectivity, device type and configuration information of anything
with an IP address
- Quickly pinpoint network performance
issues visually with auto-generated topology maps
- Automatically maintain a comprehensive
network and server inventory of physical connectivity, device asset
information, configuration information and systems inventory
- Generate comprehensive reports to help
meet compliance
For a free 30-day trial of Ipswitch WhatsConnected, visit
http://ipswit.ch/T0DxK.
Ipswitch 2015 Wearable Technology Survey Resources
- Full survey results:
http://ipswit.ch/T0DDq
- Infographic:
http://ipswit.ch/T0DoZ
About Ipswitch
Ipswitch helps solve complex IT problems with simple solutions.
The company’s software has been installed on more than 150,000
networks spanning 168 countries to monitor networks, applications
and servers, and securely transfer files between systems, business
partners and customers. Ipswitch was founded in 1991 and is based
in Lexington, Massachusetts with offices throughout the U.S.,
Europe, Asia and Latin America. For more information, visit
www.ipswitch.com.
Ipswitch and WhatsConnected are registered
trademarks of Ipswitch, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries.
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