It's time to get over the control paradigm we've all gotten used to and start thinking outside the box. What would it take to allow any device to connect safely and securely to our corporate networks?
Most of the organizations I have worked with for the past 40 years had rules about what technology could be used at work. They spent a good deal of time and money creating or acquiring standard technologies that were supposed to be easy to secure and manage because they were:
1. standardized; and
2. recognizable
Some places even went so far as to "lock down" user technologies, preventing or overwriting changes made by users.With all the well-known challenges related to combating viruses and other malware--as well as the need to secure business data and make sure that business technology wasn't being diverted to unauthorized personal use--all this effort seemed to make sense.
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