Southern California/Orange County CIO Breakfast Round Table
September 12, 2013 meeting
Present: Jeff Hecht, Jim Sutter, Sean Brown,
Jennifer Curlee, Jon Grunzweig, Jon Strittmater, Keith Golden, Jeff Crowell, Dave Phillips
The
following is a list of topics and speakers through December:
9/12/13 BYOD Jeff
Hecht, Word & Brown
10/10/13 Evolving
role of the CIO Keith
Golden, Econolite
11/14/13 IT
Governance Jeff
Crowell, uGovernIT
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Demand, Project Portfolio, Service Portfolio
Management
12/12/13 Microsoft update Hicham Semaan, Quickstart
Topic: BYOD
Jeff Hecht stated the basic issue – getting the balance right between
expanding mobility and controlling the risks.
There is a growing demand from employees (and executives) to use their
own devices, which they are familiar with, to access corporate assets. Many of these devices are not supported by the
IT department, and trying to support all the varieties is costly. Having the employees buy their own devices
appears attractive at first glance.
There are concerns about corporate data security, device control, and
backups. Employees don’t trust the company to look after their personal
data. There are many security concerns –
see slide 5, but 2/3rds of the companies are going ahead with trying to support
BYOD anyway. Many vendors state that
they have solved the problems but Jeff was not so sure. See slides 9-13. The goal of a BYOD program is to monitor,
control and protect devices, applications, networks, and data. You can’t avoid it, so draft a pilot policy
and make sure the executives are with and behind the program. Be ready to communicate the essence of the
program, and to update regularly. It
might pay to audit your company to see where you are on controlling the effects
of BYOD.
Thank you, Jeff, for a great presentation and discussion.
