BYON protects BYOD from security risks of BYOC

Thursday, January 31st, 2013 Karen Ambrose Hickey, Editor

This article How ‘bring your own cloud’ could kill BYOD on ZDNet.com argues that Bring Your Own Cloud will stop any hope of a BYOD policy.

I think the problem is that for many end users, mobile = cloud. They are not bringing in their own devices; they are bringing their best form of employee productivity. Users have brought in the devices that they use at home, and now, they are brining in the services that they use at home. A very clear policy, with additional IT security, as mentioned in several comments, can restrict that flow, or increase the awareness by end users.

As we’ve mentioned before, iPass can help users also have a Bring Your Own Network, or BYON. Having access to a secure network on your mobile device, can mitigate some of the security concerns by having anti-virus or other security process run before connection. BYON can be one tool in managing BYOC in a BYOD environment.

Tags: BYOD, mobile device, mobile workforce, smartphone