IT trying to get ahead of the BYOD trend
Tuesday, October 16th, 2012 Karen Ambrose Hickey, EditorWith the BYOD trend and employees carrying almost 3 mobile devices, some IT organizations are trying to get ahead of unsecure, employee work arounds.
As I reported last week, according to our Mobile Workforce Report, 24% of mobile workers use a workaround (a bypass) to access corporate data.
In the article, Enterprise IT now competing with apps stores, mobile devices, from Networkworld.com, Lucas Mearian reports that…”Those trends are pushing IT shops to change, and change quickly, how they manage the growing number of devices and third-party apps their co-workers are using in the workplace, according to IT experts who spoke at the Consumerization of IT in the Enterprise (CITE).”
One IT operations manager commented that if a company focuses on securing the data rather than the device, then the company can be more flexible with its options.
Another executive said..”that if enterprises don’t begin developing their own internal app stores for employees to use, workers will find work-arounds that lack security and IT support. And if companies don’t deploy internal social networking sites…, collaboration tools… or secure web browsers.., users will find their own.”
Tags: mobile worker, mobile workforce
