How Mobile's Making the Life of Your Sysadmin a Nightmare (And What You Can
Do to Help)
BYOD is awesome... except for the strain it's putting on IT. It's probably
giving your sysadmin migraines. We're going to talk about what you can do
about that.
It's official - BYOD is now the mobile strategy of choice for the majority of
enterprises. According to a comprehensive survey carried out in 2014 by the
Information Security LinkedIn Group, over 60% of large organizations either
tolerate or allow the use of personal devices on their network. Here's the
thing about that statistic, though - allowing it isn't the same as accepting
it.
Many businesses don't have a choice in the matter.
"Just because BYOD has become standard operating procedure in most
workplaces, doesn't mean the practice has stopped causing challenges for IT,"
explains Network World's Ellen Messmer. Today... (more)