According to a global survey conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit and security specialist Symantec, converged voice-data handhelds, otherwise known as smartphones, are widely perceived to be must-have business tools, but concerns about security are hampering their adoption in the enterprise. The survey’s findings indicated that some 60 percent of companies are holding back on smartphone deployments because of fears that data on the devices can be compromised. In addition, the survey found that nearly one in five businesses already has experienced financial loss due to malicious attacks against mobile platforms.