Comments on: The BYOD Trend: A Blessing or a Curse? http://www.accellion.com/blog/2012/05/the-byod-trend-a-blessing-or-a-curse/ Secure Mobile File Sharing news and commentary on enterprise security, mobility, data protection, compliance, collaboration, email and FTP related topics. Thu, 28 Mar 2013 21:36:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Kaito Mori http://www.accellion.com/blog/2012/05/the-byod-trend-a-blessing-or-a-curse/comment-page-1/#comment-8498 Kaito Mori Tue, 06 Nov 2012 19:32:05 +0000 http://www.accellion.com/blog/?p=2923#comment-8498 It seems to me that BYOD is, by its very nature, incompatible with complete IT control. If an employee can use a personal device on the network, but only if it is stripped of everything but company approved software then it's no longer a personal device, really. This isn't to detract from what Jeanette Horan has done. She's clearly taking the lead in ensuring the safety of one of the biggest tech giants out there, as she must do. I'm simply trying to wrap my mind around how to truly engage in a BYOD that reaps all the benefits while mitigating all the risks. It seems to me that BYOD is, by its very nature, incompatible with complete IT control. If an employee can use a personal device on the network, but only if it is stripped of everything but company approved software then it’s no longer a personal device, really.

This isn’t to detract from what Jeanette Horan has done. She’s clearly taking the lead in ensuring the safety of one of the biggest tech giants out there, as she must do. I’m simply trying to wrap my mind around how to truly engage in a BYOD that reaps all the benefits while mitigating all the risks.

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