The problem with COPE is the Personal side of things are often against exsisting corporate usage policy or in many companies regulatory controls that are need to be adhered to. Having run a BYOD program for the past year I’ll note two things: 1. Unless you stipend BYOD – don’t bother. You’ll have limited to [...]

Good rant. This goes both ways though as I an increasingly in meeting where security or legal wish to restrict some additional feature on BYOD devices. The cleanest method right now is to either use a container type solution or limit mobile devices to Citrix/VM VDI. Both have drawbacks. The bottom line is once you [...]

Best of luck to you in your new adventures!

Blackberry is still our standard, mostly due to it’s the cheapest device to secure and carriers provide them for free. We also have years of investment in our Blackberry Server environment and proposals for mass upgrades to iPhone we swiftly denied by upper management (who conviently did so for themselves). I’ve seen two things happen [...]

I think this just drives more companies to embrace personal liable and provide only a stipend to offset mobile expense based on role. We’re targeting to reduce our corporate liable deployment over the next 2-3 years as mobile data and device churn are near impossible to keep up with. Let employees make decisions based on [...]

I was able to sit in on your session but unfortunately had conflicts with other meetings and couldn’t stay for the Q&A portion. One of the things I wanted to bring up (in the context of BYOD, consumerization of IT) that doesn’t get discussed in employee privacy and compensation. These are two big issues that [...]

Right .. same concept, wrong word on my part.

Management is like I stated. Metrics around the device to help you understand what is being used in your environment. This applies across all users (CL, Cope, BYOD etc) Control is remote erase, pwd enforcement, restrictions etc. This has varied levels based on user type. For example we have over 10 security policies based on [...]

The article has some points but the author is incorrect that MDM solutions cannot provide DLP (I assume his company does) Blackberry provides Balance which can enforce controls around corporate data (attachments and Apps). Good Technology as well has controls which can restrict what can be done with corporate email / attachments. Considering iOS has [...]

Brian hits the nail I have seen first hand in our BYOD program: “Some (most in our case) users will balk at the restrictions many enterprises will want to impose on their new smartphone or tablet and may choose to opt out of BYOD for that reason alone.” Employee’s take their privacy seriously and have [...]

The difference is with broadband its a fixed pipe that can be managed. Wireless data is using more and more spectrum which is not endless. I’d love a world in mobile that works like the broadband model as it would truely open “mobile” but sadly unless we get a nation or global WiFi footprint it [...]

Your missing the point. IT is what drove the BYOD program but by time the mentioned areas added their criteria to allow BYOD it’s such a convoluted mess of legal, HR and compliance speak the majority of employees don’t bother. There is no silver bullet for BYOD, it will vary by company, company culutre and [...]

I have to agree I’m tired of discussing BYOD, we spent over a year getting a program approved (countless legal, compliance, HR battles) and to date we have 100 employees enrolled (ouot of 30k). It’s pretty much pointless to create all the framework if your employees have no interest in participating. Your companies mileage may [...]

You raise a host of solid points and I’m unsure what is so invalid with my logic. The current BYOD agenda is employee driven and they wish to have their cake and eat it to. (my device, little security, use as I like) Which is how it should be – it’s their device. My issue [...]

Our corporate laptops are locked down so users are not putting anything personal onto them, the same is true for our corporate Blackberry, iPhones and iPads. I think the liablity and privacy issues cloud COPE. How do you handle cross contamination of corporate and personal data? COPE works when you leverage something that isolates corporate [...]

I don’t see many places offering that option, you have to have some degree of standards or support costs just go through the roof. Maybe you have a iPhone / Blackberry model. The new Windows Phone update this year is finally bringing some enterprise features. I think you can’t have it both ways. Either you [...]

I think that does the conversation a disservice though. Every companies issues around BYOD are not about the technology. The issues circle around liablity (support), security and compliance. Three things employees care little about. You made the same point: “When we have our IT departments say “you can’t do that” or “we’ll have that in [...]

But this isn’t a IT is right and the employee is wrong or vice versa. Many companies have stringent regulatory requirements they must follow or they are fined. As much as I’d love to enable things employees want our hands to a degree are tied, now if employees would be open to the fine being [...]