Mobile takes business leaders into a new age. The era of the mobile enterprise has arrived. The use of those devices is now at a critical mass and it is just the beginning. Yet Gartner, a leading information technology research and advisory company, says few organizations plan and manage mobility with a truly strategic or proactive approach. They are mostly reactive and tactical. For enterprises, mobility should not be about the device.
Instead, it needs to be about figuring out what an organization can do differently and better now that its employees and customers use mobile technology so frequently at work and in their private lives, and access processes and data anywhere and anytime. Simply put, mobility changes everything for the enterprise. A mobile enterprise is an organization built on a foundation of technologies and business processes that enable people to connect, share information and participate in the business processes no matter where they are. What are these challenges? By Chung Jae-sung. The Wrong Question for Enterprise Security | AirPatrol Corporation. One of the best and most impressive traits of research analysts is that they are pretty darn good at predicting the past.
As for foreseeing the future, well, that is a far rarer ability. I was reminded of this troubling truth last week when I took a quick call from a research analyst who was trying to compile a best practices report on how to secure the BYOD reality overtaking the enterprise. Specifically the analyst presented me with the following question, “What are the levels of security that are needed to be taken to secure a personal device as it connects to the network?” To guide my thinking, I was told the very basic measure would be use of password and the most secure one would be to create a fully encrypted container for the enterprise data.
I must admit that as I was pondering this question I began feeling significant unease. Something just wasn’t right with it and I couldn’t quite put my finger on it. And then it hit me: the question was all wrong! Wrong! The_mobility_disruption_the_next_enterprise_it_shake-up_april_2012.