Don Reisinger

Vulnerable Applications  Although application security is vital, a whopping 70% of applications analyzed by Veracode are not in compliance with company security policies.

Open Source Widely Used  No surprise for most CIOs, 76% of companies say they are using free and open source software.

Be Prepared  80% of the respondents were hit with Web-borne attacks in 2012.

Cost Reductions  Cloud investments have historically been viewed as expensive, but 66% of organizations say the use of cloud computing applications reduces their IT costs.

So Long, Mobile Websites  Although mobile Websites are important to some users, 85% of respondents say they’d prefer a mobile app than a mobile site.

Thank You, Mobile  According to a new study of federal employees, employees gain nine hours per week of productivity due to mobile devices.

A whopping 80% of companies say Big Data is important to their ongoing business operations, with 43% saying it is “mission critical.”

By the end of 2012, more than 1 billion BYOD devices are projected to ship worldwide, leaving CIOs with an endless supply of products to contend with in the office.

Just one-third of the 250 participants in the ISACA-Cloud Security Alliance study say that innovation in the cloud-services business is “significant.”

Facebook now has more than 901 million active users worldwide. Chances are many (if not all) of your employees use the social network in the office via computer or smartphone at some point during the time when they should be working.

Mobility is expected to have the biggest financial impact on the high-tech industry over the next three years, according to 70 percent of respondents in the Accenture study.

During Q4 2012, devices running Apple’s iOS platform accounted for 80 percent of all devices activated by Good Technology’s enterprise customers. The remaining 20 percent were running Android.