Presentation on the BYOD phenomenon delivered by David McClelland for the BCS - Chartered Institute for IT - in May 2012.

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ABOUT DAVID MCCLELLAND
Freelance Journalist and Broadcaster
15 years in Enterprise IT including IBM UK, Thomson Reuters,
GlassHouse, DELL GICS
STEM Ambassador, London Computing Education Member
www.davidmcclelland.co.uk
@davidmcclelland

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BYOD BACKGROUND
Traditional Corporate IT Model
• Complete Corporate Control
Consumerisation of IT
• What is it?
• Why is it happening?

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BYOD OPPORTUNITIES
For Employers
 Reduced hardware costs
 Reduced support overhead
 More productive staff
 Happier staff
For Employees
 Better hardware
 Flexible working
 More productive
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BYOD CHALLENGES
SECURITY
• Physical Security
• Loss of physical devices
• Loss of corporate or customer data
• Network Security
• Secured, trusted access from public internet
AVAILABILITY
• Device support
• Corporate network access

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BYOD – INDUSTRY CLAIMS #1
IBM's BYOD Rollout:
 Including all 440,000 of its employees
 "About supporting employees in the way they want to work.
They will find the most appropriate tool to get their job done.”
 As of April 2012, around 80,000 of its employees were
accessing the IBM network through mobile devices that they
have supplied and for which they are paying the monthly
service fees
IBM CIO Jeanette Horan, interview with Chris Kanaracus,
IDG

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BYOD – INDUSTRY CLAIMS #2
Citrix’s BYOD Rollout:
 Achieved 20 per cent savings that the company had been
targeting.
 “Citrix attributes most of the savings to the reduced volume of
desktop support requests and incident reports from employees
across the globe who have purchased and maintained their
own work devices.”
Paul Taylor, FT January 2012

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BYOD – INDUSTRY CLAIMS #3
Symantec:
• Cost of data breaches to UK firms £79 per affected record
• BYOD culture included as a key factor in many data breaches
State of Mobility Survey, Symantec April 2012
Goode Intelligence:
• 24 percent of organisations mobile malware infection in 2011
• 9 percent in 2010
Goode Intelligence mSecurity Survey Report, April 2012

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BYOD – IS THAT ALL?
 Real extent of companies’ BYOD adoption?
 All about email and calendars?
 Bring Your Own <Insert Your Own Technology>
 Device, App, Cloud

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BYOD – THE FUTURE
• More Mobile Applications
• More than just email: Enterprise Apps
• Leveraging mobile devices’ form factor and UI characteristics
• Mobile Hypervisors
• Virtualisation on server and desktop, why not mobile?
• Separation of corporate and personal data and apps
• Remote wipe granularity

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INTRODUCING…
Jon Miles
Head of Technical Strategy for Enterprise
Cisco UK and Ireland