BYOD is the buzz...not BYOB. Every networking
company is chattering about this and every Healthcare CIO is..."should
be".."really" concerned. So what does this actually mean?
The Trends
- 81%
of employed adults use at least one personally owned device for business use.
- Apple
shipped more iPADS in 2 years than MACS in over 20 years.
- 59%
of employees use mobile devices to run line of business applications
- 90%
have disabled auto-lock for tablets, 75% for smart phones.
IT BYOD Challenges
- 2/3
say preventing unauthorized network access is a somewhat to an extremely
important task.
- <
10% of organizations are "fully aware" of the devices access their
network.
- 74%
of companies allow BYOD usages in some fashion.
-
$429,000 is the typical large company loss due to mobile computing mishaps in
2011.
- 1/2
of companies have experienced a data breach due to insecure devices.
- 71%
of companies are discussing developing custom mobile applications.
Any BYOD Policy has to be be:
1. Easy
to set-up.
2. Does
not burden IT resources.
3.
Should support a wide range of devices.
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