There is so much hype around BYOD and MDM solutions that those folks focused on it are like the audience at a David Copperfield show. Their eyes are trained on one aspect of the show while something else they don\u2019t really see happens on the same stage. This is how people are viewing BYOD solutions, myopically focused on device management and missing what is going on right under their noses.<\/p>\n
Although I can\u2019t tell you how David Copperfield turns a beautiful blonde into a beautiful Bengal tiger, I can tell you what folks are missing when they only focus on MDM. They\u2019re missing all the other devices being brought into the enterprise.\u00a0 If you\u2019re only going to look at those devices that are brought to your front door and laid down on your front step in an almost a sacrificial sense then you won\u2019t see the whole picture. \u00a0You\u2019ll miss the gaming consoles over in engineering, you\u2019ll miss the personal WiFi printers in accounting, and you\u2019ll never see the WiFi routers the marketing team set up. Not only will you have no knowledge of those devices, you won\u2019t have control or have the ability to manage them either.<\/p>\n
Of course the folks bringing those devices in are good hearted folks and they wouldn\u2019t consider actually stealing corporate information. For instance the bookkeeper that is leaving early but taking work home with her isn\u2019t printing (on her private WiFi printer) general ledger pages to sell on the black market. But when those papers walk out the door, you\u2019re security has been breached. The marketing manager that setup a private WiFi network didn\u2019t leave the default WAP password in place so hackers could get access to your network from the parking lot, he\u2019s just a little lazy or not technically savvy (certainly not as savvy as the guy in the van in the parking lot that just found the WiFi).<\/p>\n
You\u2019re employees aren\u2019t bad people so, really, why would you put controls in place for such nice folks\u2026 What harm could come from being myopic when you\u2019re surrounded by employees full of good intentions!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There is so much hype around BYOD and MDM solutions that those folks focused on it are like the audience at a David Copperfield show. Their eyes are trained on one aspect of the show while something else they don\u2019t really see happens on the same stage. This is how people are viewing BYOD solutions, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":295,"featured_media":1797,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[16,113,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-1796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-community","8":"tag-infoblox","9":"tag-networking-control","10":"tag-security","11":"entry"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n