Mobile devices are attached to our hips; people are buried in them, constantly answering emails and completing work. Estimates suggest the number of mobile devices will be around 10 billion in five years. That number works out to be 1.5 devices for every person on the planet.
With mobile devices becoming so engrained in our daily lives, organizations realize employees want to use these personal devices to conduct work, and, therefore, are turning to corporate IT to make that a reality. BYOD environments can’t be stopped in the workplace, so businesses need to learn how to control it.
Challenges with BYOD Management
BYOD is a business disruptor with implications reaching far into the IT sphere. Traditional security models employed by enterprises aren’t prepared for BYOD needs. This kind of environment blurs the definition of a clear security perimeter in terms of both asset ownership and physical location. Since corporate email, data, and calendars would be accessible from personal devices, companies are struggling to reinvent their security posture.
How to Manage Your BYOD Environment
With the use of personal devices for work purposes, enterprises need to have the right solution to empower their IT team. An appropriate solution needs to provide visibility into every wired and wirelessly connected device; control BYOD, corporate devices, and IoT across numerous network vendors; and respond with flawless integration of security tools for automated threat detection and unified policy enforcement.
An IT solution that can do all this is the Aruba ClearPass, which brings visibility, control, and security response to the anywhere, anytime, any-device company. The ClearPass provides a single radius-based security and verification point for wireless and wired networks, application, employee, contractor, and guest devices. With it, you can create, define, and enforce a consistent access policy of which devices can connect to what elements in the enterprise. You can do this based on the kind of device, the type of employee using it, where and in what capacity it’s being used, or the type of connection.
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An IT solution like this drastically improves your security posture to accommodate BYOD mobile device management, streamlining your network security management. From a single management console, you can unify threat and potential breach response with leading security vendors. It will re-enforce your blurred security perimeter by knowing and controlling what connects inside your enterprise.
The Aruba ClearPass is a trusted IT solution. It has been deployed in the largest of networks, at over 7,000 companies, in more than 28 different vertical markets. Only this solution can deliver assured connectivity in a multi-vendor security and infrastructure environment.
Security challenges are major concerns for companies implementing BYOD for their employees. Because personal devices blur an organization’s security perimeter, strict BYOD solutions are needed to help manage and provide visibility; that’s why you need the Aruba ClearPass. ACSI is an Aruba reseller partner and experienced in implementing their solutions into vertical markets including the energy sector. Contact us today for more information regarding this BYOD solution.
