Get ahead of the BYOD wave

If you aren't ready, you will get swallowed up

Why fight employees' constant barrage of bringing in their own devices. We are far past that point, it is time to accept it and find a way to make it BYOD work within the confines of your network.

Remember the days when only your executive suite had mobile devices? Or when your company had a “BlackBerry-only” policy?

Now BYOD has swept across your company, with little regard to whether or not IT is on board. And while you’re coming to grips with management and security issues, you may have realized that mobility is eating up your IT budget. New devices, data plans, apps, software — what is the true cost of BYOD?

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A signed policy also gives companies the right to protect themselves in the event of device theft, loss or misuse. “Companies can’t simply wipe information off lost devices -- that wouldn’t be legal,” Park says. “There has to be some sort of agreement in place between the individual and the company.”

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