Integrate Consumer Applications into IT
Secure IT’s core assets amidst the flood of personal unmanaged technology.
- It is expected that by 2013, every worker will bring a personal and unmanaged device (PUD) into the workplace.
- Personal and unmanaged applications (PUAs) represent a huge threat if left completely unmanaged on devices that have access to organizational resources.
- PUAs can be leveraged to fill gaps in your portfolio if you understand their potential use cases.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- Remember the five E’s- Educate, Engage, Enable, Entice, Enforce.
- Align PUD and PUA management strategies to provide a single organizational approach.
- Leverage the PUAs to fill productivity gaps in your application portfolio.
Impact and Result
- PUAs are already within your organization. Get up to speed on their risks and benefits.
- Take advantage of PUAs to bring mobile productivity to end users.
- Plan a long term strategy that includes an ecosystem approach to your portfolio that allows any device to securely be used for business productivity.
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Contributors
- Two separate financial institutions
- Hamilton Health Sciences
- Nathan Clevenger, ITR Mobility
- HP
- OpenText
- CareCloud