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Forget BYOB, Today's Hyper-Connected World is all about BYOD. As we mentioned in a recent post about the WEF's Cyber Resilience campaign, we entered the global partnership to help highlight the need for collaborative ...
IT departments are finding that the push comes from executives who are used to using their mobile devices on the road and don’t want to be denied access to work-related information while they travel, particularly when it is for business. So, in setting these types of BYOD policies, there are several things to consider:
- What types of devices will your company allow to access corporate data?
- What types of applications will be allowed, from browsing to email to the full corporate environment?
- What policies will you need to protect against lost data should a device be lost or stolen?
- What security do you currently have in place to protect corporate data on personal mobile devices? Forrester claims that only 50 percent of organizations enforce a password policy for mobile devices.
- What is acceptable use and how do you plan to enforce it?
- How do you prevent downloads of unauthorized apps or illegal downloads on a mobile device?
- What happens when someone leaves your organization?
Check out also the WhitePaper:
- http://www.scribd.com/doc/74785478/Living-With-the-genie
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