Bring your own cloud

Grazed from ITWeb. Author: Perry Hutton.

It appears that climate change is finally starting to make itself felt, certainly across Europe and particularly the UK, which is experiencing its wettest winter on record, with widespread flooding causing chaos. Emergency agencies across the continent have been mobilised and are working to rescue affected communities, hold back floodwater and repair damaged infrastructure. The challenge for governments now is to try and shore up the defences against inevitable future flooding. If only they had prepared the defences adequately in advance, there might not be such widespread devastation now.

SOS

This situation is a perfect analogy for what the business world is experiencing with regard to the threats and occasional devastation created by BYOD, and increasingly, bring your own cloud. The corporate world has seen a flood of mobile devices, and increasingly personal cloud accounts, entering its midst. For the most part, it has been struggling to keep control…

There has become an urgency for adopting the right security strategy in order to stop the steady stream becoming an incontrollable flood, so to speak. Both climate change and BYOD are underpinned by innocence, ignorance and selfishness having a detrimental effect on the corporate world. In the case of younger employees, they have become accustomed to using their own devices and cloud applications, and have an expectation to continue doing so in the work environment…

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