As the use of mobile devices continues to soar, enterprise cloud applications are now resident in the palm of your hand, including ordinary e-mail and mobile Web browsing; with mobility comes ever greater responsibility to keep enterprise data safe.

"The power of these devices in consumers' hands is now equal to that of what people have in their hands to access their enterprise data, and the two things are all getting smashed together," said Tom Barber, vice president of marketing for DecisionPoint Systems, provider and consultant for enterprise cloud and mobile applications.

Kendall Collins, chief marketing officer at Salesforce.com, acknowledges that security is an area of concern for mobile devices. "Security on mobile devices is an area where we’ve invested a lot of time to make this world class," he said. "We’ve seen a lot of custom applications being employed in mobile devices."

To learn what you need to know to keep your mobile cloud data safe, read this article at our sister site, EnterpriseITPlanet.