Thursday, March 07, 2013

Unintended Consequences of Bring Your Own Device

With practically all the people you know walking around with more computing power in their pockets than could have been mustered by an army of lab-coated technicians a few decades ago, it's not surprising that Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is the now thing. What is surprising, though, is how some companies, software publishers, other vendors, and corporate employees themselves seem to be treating the implications of this change.

Gartner, the IT research and advisory company, defines BYOD as "an alternative strategy allowing employees, business partners and other users to utilize a personally selected and purchased client device to execute enterprise applications and access data." There are variations in which devices are personally selected but purchased by the company (for example, COPE: Corporate Owned, Personally Enabled), but most of the BYOD world is just what you think it is: people using their own smartphones, tablets, laptops — even game consoles, smart TVs, or other smart devices with internet access — to perform two functions that have been protected by high walls since the beginning of the Information Age: execute enterprise applications and access data. This article discusses some of the unintended (or unanticipated) consequences of companies adopting a BYOD strategy.

EXECUTING ENTERPRISE APPS: THERE'S AN AGREEMENT FOR THAT

If flying cars ever take off, the existing rules of the road will probably have to be revised. George Jetson encountered (and obeyed) floating stoplights on his way to work, but real highways in the sky will probably lack that kind of similarity to their terrestrial models.

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Source: Law Technology News
By: Susan Ross

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