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I keep hearing that productivity is increased, but I have yet to see any research or hard evidence to support it. Next you say companies are embracing BYOD. Can you give us an idea as to what the percentage is (hard data again) and what embracing actually means?
People have been trying to unsuccessfully measure the increases in productivity afforded by desktop computing for years. I suspect that increases in productivity may have more to do with not falling behind your competition - employees, students and retirees that have immediate and unfettered access to their data (whatever that data is for them) are inherently more productive and BYOT takes that to the next level.
This comment is misleading: "When information is not saved on individual devices and never leaves the company environment, the data remains secure"
Why? Because all it takes is a device with access to an environment to be compromised and you;ve lost your security. The data can stay where it is and still be insecure. A fully informed and complete approach is to mitigate the breach of the devices used to access data. With managed devices it's hard enough, with BYOD this is near impossible.
Why? Because all it takes is a device with access to an environment to be compromised and you;ve lost your security. The data can stay where it is and still be insecure. A fully informed and complete approach is to mitigate the breach of the devices used to access data. With managed devices it's hard enough, with BYOD this is near impossible.
Very polite.
One wonders at potential motives in not presenting that if in upper case in 40pt bold, colour = SCREAMINGRED;
Well actually one doesn't, does one, one knows the motive, it's big, fat and green.
One wonders at potential motives in not presenting that if in upper case in 40pt bold, colour = SCREAMINGRED;
Well actually one doesn't, does one, one knows the motive, it's big, fat and green.
Devices don't secure Data .. People do. However data distribution and security policies should absolutely be inplace with BYOD.
Leaving confidential information on your desk is very different from storing is an unsecure desk drawer vs having confidential information in a safe that is broken into.
Business Data and Personal Information distribution should be tiered to BYO phones based on the level of security those devices have
Leaving confidential information on your desk is very different from storing is an unsecure desk drawer vs having confidential information in a safe that is broken into.
Business Data and Personal Information distribution should be tiered to BYO phones based on the level of security those devices have
The most significant problem with having a myriad of devices brought in to the corporate environment is that there is such a plethora of software and hardware that managing security across all these devices is nigh on impossible.
A company can and should adopt BYOD if it can find a way to secure such devices universally. To me, allowing any and all BYOD becomes the proverbial "leaking ship". Corporate IT should instead be looking at how to satisfy employee personal preferences and meet the security and productivity needs of the business no matter where the device is. This former requirement should spend less time on brands of devices and more on whether these devices actually meet those personal preferences. The company can then issue a standard device for those that don't care and allow employees to purchase specified devices that satisfy the performance and security requirements of the company.
To some extent, BlackBerry attempts to provide the tools to corporations through its enterprise solutions that offer uncompromising security and the Z10 and Q10 phones which allow for partitioned work/personal spaces where corporate IT has 100% control on the work side and nothing on the consumer side can get at the work side. BlackBerry has certainly delivered historically on the corporate security and performance side. It remains to be seen if BlackBerry can gain consumer acceptance but I suspect once consumers get their hands on these devices, they may very well prefer them over anything else out there, especially if developers come through with a rich and useful set of apps.
A company can and should adopt BYOD if it can find a way to secure such devices universally. To me, allowing any and all BYOD becomes the proverbial "leaking ship". Corporate IT should instead be looking at how to satisfy employee personal preferences and meet the security and productivity needs of the business no matter where the device is. This former requirement should spend less time on brands of devices and more on whether these devices actually meet those personal preferences. The company can then issue a standard device for those that don't care and allow employees to purchase specified devices that satisfy the performance and security requirements of the company.
To some extent, BlackBerry attempts to provide the tools to corporations through its enterprise solutions that offer uncompromising security and the Z10 and Q10 phones which allow for partitioned work/personal spaces where corporate IT has 100% control on the work side and nothing on the consumer side can get at the work side. BlackBerry has certainly delivered historically on the corporate security and performance side. It remains to be seen if BlackBerry can gain consumer acceptance but I suspect once consumers get their hands on these devices, they may very well prefer them over anything else out there, especially if developers come through with a rich and useful set of apps.
Michael, I just wrote blog on this re productivity benefits and costs of implementing (http://intel.ly/T1n4x4). Intel IT enabled BYOD starting in 2010 and we have generated an estimated 7 million hours of extra productivity as a result at Intel.
Another resource you might find handy is this Consumerization Planning Guide from the Intel IT Center - lays out 5 steps for embracing. (https://www-ssl.intel.com/content/www/us/en/mobile-computing/consumerization-of-it-planning-guide.html)
Another resource you might find handy is this Consumerization Planning Guide from the Intel IT Center - lays out 5 steps for embracing. (https://www-ssl.intel.com/content/www/us/en/mobile-computing/consumerization-of-it-planning-guide.html)
Thank you for your comments.
Let's clarify more regarding the security:
I agree that securing BYOD can be a nightmare. If you put your company data in devices it is very complicated and even nearly impossible to effectively secure your company data with all the variety of devices, OS's, and locations. But if you will be able to keep the data in your company and just allow the users to access the data from remote devices without the ability to download the data, then the security task can be simpler. In this case, the security task is just to make sure the gate to your data is secure enough, e.g. two-factor authentication and making sure passwords are not kept on devices. Of course you still will need to deal with security but its possible to make it a more reasonable effort.
Let's clarify more regarding the security:
I agree that securing BYOD can be a nightmare. If you put your company data in devices it is very complicated and even nearly impossible to effectively secure your company data with all the variety of devices, OS's, and locations. But if you will be able to keep the data in your company and just allow the users to access the data from remote devices without the ability to download the data, then the security task can be simpler. In this case, the security task is just to make sure the gate to your data is secure enough, e.g. two-factor authentication and making sure passwords are not kept on devices. Of course you still will need to deal with security but its possible to make it a more reasonable effort.
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