BYOD
1. Redefining BYOD
Employer’s realize that allowing employee’s to use their own device at work, (BYOD) , can increase productivity. Employees enjoy the familiarity of their own smartphone and the decrease in cost as the company picks up the tab for their personal use as well. BYOD is not without its risks for the enterprise though; the challenges of managing and securing a heterogeneous estate of mobile devices should not be underestimated. Many of the BYOD headaches for enterprises can be reduced to a few discrete problems. The multiplicity of devices and operating systems, the inappropriateness of a particular platform to a given role or the legality of making modifications to someone else’s “computer” for instance, how do you legally “wipe” a device that you do not own? An alternative approach has been called “Inverse BYOD” where a business owned device is provided to the employee for both personal and business use. This strategy has some mileage and offers the beginnings of a workable long-term strategy for enterprise. A Bring Your Own Data strategy means that companies can offer devices from a pool of “enterprise approved” hardware. Approved for their manageability and for their appropriateness for the employee’s role. Companies are no longer in the position of having to say yes to everything for everyone, neither are they obliged to support every flavour of every Operating System from every manufacturer.
http://www.cio.co.uk/opinion/ferguson/2012/11/05/redefining-byod
2. Enterasys Provides Secure BYOD Solution for Sinclair Community College
Sinclair Community College, located in Dayton, Ohio, has deployed identiFi™, the new Enterasys WLAN solution, to support its BYOD and wireless networking initiatives. Responsible for supporting the Wi-Fi needs of 24,000 students and 4,000 faculty and staff, Sinclair Community College selected the Mobile IAM solutionfrom Enterasys as its comprehensive BYOD capabilities provide total security, full IT control and a predictable network experience for all users.An early adopter of BYOD, Sinclair Community College developed an in-house secure LAN solution using open and standard products. Although this solution helped launch its BYOD program, it lacked the necessary granular controls and automation necessary to keep pace with the college’s escalating networking demands. With 20 buildings in downtown Dayton and five remote locations, Sinclair Community College needed a tool that could quickly adjust and distribute policies to all of its locations. The Enterasys Mobile IAM policy automation and provisioning capabilities enable a single policy approach for the college’s wired, wireless and VPN deployments that simplifies management and eliminates potential security holes.
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