EDITOR’S QUESTION
Shams Hasan
Enterprise Product
Manager, Dell
A digitally agile workforce promises exciting
new opportunities for more flexibility,
more convenience, and more productivity.
However, enabling a mobile workforce has
proved to bring equal parts opportunity and
risk of data loss, primarily because in order
to be productive in the modern workplace,
employees need to be able to collaborate and
access documents and information wherever
they are. This introduces new complications:
mobile devices are more prone to theft and
loss, employees working from remote locations
might log in to unsecure networks, remote
offices are not always secured as thoroughly
as the headquarters, and the fact that the
evolution of security solutions is not keeping
pace on the mobile devices themselves.
CIOs need to consider the right IT solutions to
transform and refine their business processes,
at the same time – protect their organization
and customers, comply with regulations, and
enable the business and the workforce to
adopt next-generation technologies faster
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than the competition. What is needed is a
holistic IT Security Strategy that focuses on
network security; data, endpoint and mobility
security; identity and access management;
and security services with solutions from the
data center to the farthest endpoints and all
along the networks and Clouds in between.
It builds security capability early in business
planning process, not just bolting it on after
the fact. Business leaders should partner with
vendors who can provide solutions that protect
the entire IT landscape not just address a
specific security concern – in the long-term
this complicates and fragments the security
environment.
The mobile workforce is going to continue to
grow as long as technology and workplace
culture enables it, and before long, a new crop
of security issues will arise to challenge busy IT
teams. However, while the future of mobility
is still on the horizon, the future of securi H\\