Samsung Business partnered with the Government Executive Media Group to build an assessment tool to help federal employees gauge if their mobile device habits are putting their agencies at risk. Based on their answers to a series of questions, respondents were assigned a Mobile Security score on a 100 point scale. Take a look at the results. www.samsung.com/government

1. The State of Federal
Mobile Security
Samsung Business built an assessment tool to help federal employees gauge if their mobile
device habits are putting their agencies at risk. Based on their answers to a series of
questions, respondents were assigned a Mobile Security score on a 100 point scale.
55%
as soon as updates
are available
14%
within a day
10%
within a week
13%
within a month
8%
longer than
a month
How federal employees
prevent unauthorized access
to their work devices:
PINs or swipe
passwords
74%
Biometric
authentification
26%
Two-factor
authentification
61%
When federal employees
update and patch their
mobile device software:
Top Scoring
Agencies:
72.5/100
Department
of Labor
GSA
69.6/100
NASA
65/100
Overall Federal Mobile
Security Index:
54.5/100
of federal employees are able to remotely
wipe their phones if lost or stolen
53%
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93%
Email
69%
GPS
Mobile apps used by
federal employees
62%
News
47%
Social media
41%
Collaboration
tools
32%
Mobile
security 20%
Mobile data
collection
32%
of federal employees use
mobile security apps
federal employees do not
back up their mobile data
1in 3
Only