It’s Time for IT to Take Control of BYOA
July 7, 2014
Grazed from DataCenterKnowledge. Author: John Purcell.
IT departments that are waiting to make necessary changes in device and application management are sitting on a ticking time bomb. As an industry, we learned a while ago about what it means to have employees bring their own devices into the office, and many IT professionals played catch up to accommodate the various support – and more important, security – requirements that presented themselves as a result. BYOD is here to stay, and the Bring Your Own Applications (BYOA) trend has quickly joined the fray. While not new, there are many IT departments that have yet to address how they will manage these apps.
The time is now
The shift from enterprise-grade software to simply, “there’s an app for that,” began a while ago. This is driving the rise of BYOA in the workplace. The security that IT used to rely on is crumbling. The IT department has a big stake in the solution, whether or not leadership and employees acknowledge it…
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