Oslo, Norway, 24th April 2012 – In a white paper published today, Encap discusses the unique challenges facing enterprise IT today, examines the role of authentication in the post-PC era, and analyses the effectiveness of the various approaches available. 

The rapid ‘consumerization’ of technology is creating new issues for enterprise IT departments.  Smartphone shipments have now overtaken PCs and the line between business and consumer technology has become blurred.  Without doubt, this new smart device-based, cloud-driven, post-PC enterprise environment has created a host of new problems for IT departments seeking to not only safeguard enterprises from risk but optimise performance and gain a competitive advantage. 

With geographically dispersed employees increasingly accessing emails and other business data on personal devices, enterprises need to secure their networks and applications but keep them easily accessible to their employees. And in these times of austerity, enterprises need to do this without it costing too much.

Traditional hardware and one-time-password authentication solutions designed for the traditional office and desktop PC isn’t fit for purpose as mobility and cloud-based access becomes de facto for enterprises.  New next generation, software-based, highly scalable, device independent platforms, that turn an IT problem into a business advantage, are radically changing how employees work and how enterprises operate.

The full white paper can be downloaded here: http://goo.gl/3EQ1c