The Channel logo   By | Lucy Sherriff 18th June 2012 10:30
BYOD: The great small biz security headache  The great reseller
opportunity  After surveying more than 1600 IT professionals
late last year, the analyst firm Freeform Dynamics concluded
that the consumerisation of IT is a real thing, and it is not
just down to those pesky young people and their shiny iPads.
Company founder Dale Vile says the trend is driven not just by
the so-called digital natives, but by more senior staff who have
the disposable income to afford cool devices, and the seniority
to override rules and use them at work if they want to.  IT
staff are the most likely to want to use their own kit, but the
senior and mid-level management, people Freeform dubs “high
contributing employees”, are also keen.  These people are a
double threat to security. They are senior enough that saying
“No” to them is a difficult option, but they are also likely to
have access to just the kind of data you most want to protect:
confidential sales projection