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Thursday, 27 March 2014

Prevent BYOD from becoming Bring Your Own Disease

From Tech Republic

“With BYOD initiatives seeing exponential growth, security has become an utmost concern for network managers dealing with mobile users.

Everybody likes "free." But that likeability takes a hard hit when "free" is combined with "network security", particularly when BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) issues are involved.

In the past, network managers had the luxury of dictating what security software was used across the enterprise, with expansive management suites enforcing the use of anti-malware technologies across both servers and workstations. Fast forward to the present day and network administrators have usurped most of their control over endpoints, simply because enterprises own fewer endpoints and are embracing BYOD ideologies to lower costs.”

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