Three Kinds of BYOD Approach
As BYOD has evolved, we have seen that there is a sliding scale of BYOD technical solutions, ranging from low to high cost. Low budget is to have a hands-off approach – a bare-minimum policy – and to isolate all wireless BYOD devices so that they can only use one or two services (such as email) and nothing else.
A CIO could go for something more middling and use network devices to control and monitor access over the Wi-Fi at their facilities, and not allow any access to corporate information other than through this route. This is often extended outside the office by using VPNs on mobile devices and locking down application access to isolate personal applications from corporate. But this still opens a tunnel that malware could exploit.
For complex, changing, and regulated environments, a CIO is likely to go big-budget and invest in an MDM solution that will implement a detailed BYOD policy, providing a great employee UX matched by fine-grain IT controls.