Tim Mullahy

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)