Mobile safer than desktops?

• Position: MOBILE DEVICES

Yes, it could happen. By ext year, mobile technology could actually be more secure than traditional computing.

This bold prediction was made by Marc van Zadelhoff, IBM vice president of strategy and product management, in a recent article in USA Today.

"Companies are adopting best practices that are rapidly enabling mobile computing to become more secure than traditional desktop computing," he said. "This is being led by chief information security officers who are driving change to ensure critical mobile security needs are addressed today."

Although mobile devices and tablets are primarily considered consumer products, they are increasingly being used for business purposes. Research conducted by Vertic, a digital ad agency, showed that tablet use in enterprises has grown nearly 50% annually since 2011. More than 96 million tablets are expected to have been shipped to enterprises by 2016. Further, 38% of senior executives were issued tablets in 2011.

Mobile usage has...