How is everyone is handling BYOD? Where I work BYOD started out with grandiose visions. But, the lawyers got ahold of it and now it’s nothing more than sponsored guest access for corporate devices.
I really am trying to convince, the powers that be that BYOD is more than just guest access and that we need to embrace MDM, location services and policy control. That way we can have the security that the lawyers want and the freedom that users desire to allow them to do their job anytime at anyplace.
A true BYOD solution should be transparent, to the end user, just another way to connect to the network. This solution should be also intuitive to configure for the administrator and allow for granular policy control.
A big stumbling block I run into with our current situation is that we have zero visibility into the client devices. We have no idea what software is running on the device, where a user is located, Finally, as far as access control goes, it’s an all or nothing scenario, which scares the business types.
I’m thinking if we deployed a MDM solution, this would give us insight into the client side. Location services would tell us where our clients are and AAA policy control, would also us to grant granular access, getting rid of that all of nothing access solution.
How are you handling BYOD?