Buy Your Own, rather than Bring Your Own On 18 April 2013 10:51, Webster <[email protected]> wrote:
> “A company going and buying 40,000 iPads isn’t BYOD”**** > > ** ** > > A lot of companies (mis)use the term BYOD anytime mobile or portable > devices are used even if the company buys the devices. The project I am on > now, the CIO uses BYOD for the project even though the company will > purchase the phones, iPads and Surface Pros. The company that bought the > 40,000 iPads considered it their “BYOD Initiative”.**** > > ** ** > > Thanks**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > Webster**** > > ** ** > > *From:* Ken Schaefer [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Tuesday, April 16, 2013 7:24 PM > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* RE: Some interesting thoughts about network security**** > > ** ** > > Some thoughts on this:**** > > ** ** > > - A company going and buying 40,000 iPads isn’t BYOD. Corps have > been buying phones (e.g. Blackberries), laptops and tablets for staff for a > long time. If the corp is providing it, it’s not BYOD**** > > - The concept of remote VDI isn’t new. That said I don’t think > it’ll fly in many financial institutions outside retail banking in the > short term. IME the type of work that needs to be done in wealth > management, investment and institutional banking is very different to > tellers working out in branches in retail banking. Retail banking’s been > dominated by thin clients for a long time (fixing thick client PCs out in > suburbia or out in the country is support PITA). Not to say there isn’t > some scope to pull some apps back to a centralised location for > wealth/institutional/investment, but there are other things (like Bloomberg > terminals, Reuters feeds etc.) where the underlying network required and > the physical kit, is going to result in stuff sitting on people’s desks.** > ** > > - BYOD + remote VDI is becoming more popular, but I just don’t > think (in the short term) that it’s going to dominate banks. There’s simply > too many issues still around (e.g. what to do when the employee’s machine > breaks down) that there aren’t clear-cut best-practise answers to. Whilst I > see people trialling things, I don’t think the evidence is in yet on > whether it’s a good idea or not. I think it’ll be another 3-5 years before > we have enough data on whether it’s sustainable and economic.**** > > - Compliance/Risk depts. Have issues around a central > infrastructure providing the entire service: the cost providing a full > redundant, HA, platform for a small trading office with 10-20 staff kinda > crimps this initiative. And a non-redundant, non-HA setup will not fly > because the bank is unable to consolidate and report its overall risk > position to regulators.**** > > - The other stuff (like his networking proposals), I think is > just silly. He obviously knows his Citrix stuff well. But maybe that’s > where he should stick to – get networking and security guys to help paint > the rest of the picture.**** > > ** ** > > Cheers**** > > Ken**** > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > -- *James Rankin* Technical Consultant (ACA, CCA, MCTS) http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
