BYOD
EMC/DELL MERGER: BYOD May Be Coming to an End at EMC as Dell Merger Looms. As Dell and EMC prepare to complete their merger, EMC purportedly issued a statement insisting that customers of the two companies only see Dell laptops during meetings and consulting engagements. EMC workers that use Apple products as part of that company’s existing BYOD policy will need to leave them at the office, according to the report. Read the rest
[CIODIVE.COM]
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT: Federal Government Exec Gives Advice on Enterprise BYOD Implementations. Josh Moulin, a chief information security officer (CISO) for a federal US national security agency, has detailed in a post the process of a proposal to move an agency to BYOD – and why it was eventually disallowed. Find out more
[APPSTECHNEWS.COM]
MARINE CORPS: Marines Work to Join Enterprise Network to JIE. The Marine Corps expeditionary mission set continues to challenge efforts to join the Corps with the Department of Defense’s Joint Information Environment (JIE). In a further effort to align its present networking policies with those of JIE, the Corps is taking a hard look at Bring Your Own Device, or BYOD. The service is moving forward on a pilot project which will use drive certificates as a means to create secure software containers on some 250 test mobile devices by the end of the fiscal year. Read more
[GOVTECHWORKS.COM]
ENTERPRISE: Enterprise Mobility: BYOD, EMM, and New Security Approaches. Today’s enterprise employees increasingly expect to be productive wherever they may be, on whatever device they choose, which raises multiple management and security issues for IT departments. The Ponemon Institute’s 2016 survey report reveals some telling insights about enterprise mobile security — many of them clearly driven by the BYOD trend of recent years. Read more
[ZDNET.COM]
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