Jacob Bradshaw discusses a few ideas and considerations that you should chew on while building your battle plan to handle the BYOD invasion.
Here are a few questions to consider:
- Will there any chance that the employee can use or attempt to use your organization’s intellectual property on their device?
- Is that type of access going to be allowed? If not, how will it be blocked?
- As an employee with a new device, how much control do you want to let your organization have over it?
- As an IT admin, how much control do you need to have over that mobile device?
- How big of a security threat is that mobile device to your network, and can your current infrastructure handle that much bandwidth and overhead?
- How much security is enough from an IT standpoint, and how much is too much from a user’s standpoint?
- Once the company is managing that device, how much end-user support is going to be rendered to the user?
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http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/tablets/prepare-for-byod-in-your-organization/1369?tag=nl.e101