Managing Mobile Mania

摘要

In January 2008, only 10 percent of U.S. companies responding to an Aberdeen survey said they allowed workers to use personal devices at work. In July 2012, that figure jumped to more than 80 percent, a sign of the popularity the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend. But just because workers have smartphones doesn't mean they're smart about security. "I have no trouble with people bringing their own machines to work if, and only if, they are competent to run them," Dan Geer, a security researcher and CISO at In-Q-Tel, the CIA's venture-capital arm, said in an email. "If they are mere subscribers with a penchant for shiny things, then keep them out of the network." The trouble is, the worker who likes shiny things may be the CEO, who wants to use an iPad to run business-intelligence dashboards.