Best Practices for BYOD Policies What is BYOD, and should this concern your company? Ever since consumers (including employees in your company) started coveting the iPhone, there has been an increasing demand from enterprise users to be able to choose their own smartphones, and now tablets, and even desktops and laptops. According to a recent […]
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Controlling mobile costs becomes more complex when you add in a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) program. Many employees prefer to carry one smartphone for both work and personal use, but then how should companies pay for these dual-purpose devices? In order to address this question, we need to categorize employees by the type of […]
The Amazon Kindle Fire was released this week with a record-setting one million plus preordered tablets being shipped. Reviews of the device have been lukewarm with many reviewers pointing to the less than powerful 1Ghz processor. From an enterprise point of view the Fire isn’t really important, at least not yet. None of the major […]
Creating an effective security policy for personal devices accessing the corporate network You probably already have a wireless security policy governing the use of corporately owned devices, but what about those employee owned devices? If you don’t already have a good Bring Your Own Device policy, then your organization falls into one of two scenarios: […]
“Bring Your Own Device” refers to employees using their own personal mobile devices (typically smartphones or tablets) for business use. Two trends have been major causes of the BYOD phenomenon: Companies wanting to reduce complexity and cost of managing mobility Employees wanting to use the most popular devices that they use as consumers, instead of […]