{"id":11018,"date":"2011-01-07T10:42:41","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T10:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=11018"},"modified":"2011-01-07T10:42:41","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T10:42:41","slug":"74-of-workers-plug-personal-devices-into-work-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=11018","title":{"rendered":"74% Of Workers Plug Personal Devices Into Work Network"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve just read a story on techcentral.ie<\/a> that discusses a Virgin Media (UK-based ISP) report.\u00a0 It says that 74% of company employees are bringing personal devices into work and plugging them into the company network.\u00a0 This is the sort of thing I was talking about in my previous millenials post<\/a>.\u00a0 It’s also the sort of thing that has impacted decision making by corporates: personal preferences for a better appliance or utility can improve the working experience, and the corporate decision making process.\u00a0 We have to decide how we respond?<\/p>\n

Do we try to block everything?\u00a0 We can try.\u00a0 Group Policy and utilities like DeviceLock can lock down what is plugged into PCs.\u00a0 Network Access Protection (Windows)\/Network Access Control (Cisco) can control what is allowed to connect to the network.\u00a0 I’ve taken the device lock approach before.\u00a0 But a valid business case always overrules global policy, and you might be surprised how many people come up with “valid” business cases.\u00a0 Soon the policy resembles swiss cheese, only affecting the minority of users.\u00a0 The result is that IT is disliked – it’s a blocking force once again.<\/p>\n

The user-centric approach that we’re seeing with private cloud, App-V, and System Configuration Manager 2012 is an example of how we need to think.\u00a0 My millenials post<\/a> also suggests a way forward.\u00a0 Maybe we need to allow personal appliances, but use those policy tools like Network Access Control to place the appliances into networks that are not central, kind of like the guest network that is often used.\u00a0 Or maybe we need to change how we think about the PC altogether and treat the entire PC network as a guest network.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The latter approach might work very well with the user-centric approach.\u00a0 If end users are using their own PCs, tablets, and phones, then we cannot apply corporate policy to them.\u00a0 Maybe we just provide user-centric self-service mechanisms and let them help themselves.\u00a0 Or maybe things like VDI and\/or RemoteApp are the way forward for LOB client delivery.\u00a0 If everythign was cloud (public\/provate) and web-client based then application delivery would be irrelevant.\u00a0 Maybe it’s a little bit from column A and a little from column B?<\/p>\n

It’s a big topic and would require a complete shift in thinking … and a complete re-deployment of the client network, including LOB application interfaces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve just read a story on techcentral.ie that discusses a Virgin Media (UK-based ISP) report.\u00a0 It says that 74% of company employees are bringing personal devices into work and plugging them into the company network.\u00a0 This is the sort of thing I was talking about in my previous millenials post.\u00a0 It’s also the sort of … Continue reading “74% Of Workers Plug Personal Devices Into Work Network”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[173,174,88,188,190,193,102],"class_list":["post-11018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","tag-configmgr","tag-deployment","tag-private-cloud","tag-remote-desktop-services","tag-security","tag-system-center","tag-vdi"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t