BYOD

There is an irreversible trend in the workplace of employees owning the computing devices used for work. Given the accelerating rate of new and improved devices hitting the market, enterprises are finding it harder and harder to provide the latest and greatest tools to employees. Teleworkers frequently prefer to work on their home machines than maintain two machines at home.

I agree with the Information Week position that we need to move from protecting the network and the end-points to protecting Enterprise data. While networks and devices are assets that must be well managed and controlled, the true asset is information (data) and insights. So, enterprise IT must primarily focus on securing data. I believe that, for a long time in the future, we will be required to manage hybrid environments where some devices are owned by the enterprise while others are personal devices that employees will like to use for work as well. So, the only way to secure our assets is to secure and manage data.

I continue to look forward to a future innovation where security is embedded with the data and not is just a wrapper around it. That will make our job of securing enterprise data much easier.

Trust Digital
They claim to provide Blackberry-level security to non-blackberry devices. We should look into it for iPhones, G1s and other non-blackberry smart phones.

Seamless teleworking with Cisco
The new product promises to hide the complexities of a VPN from an end user (article on Infoworld). Both Users and IT have a lot to gain from this.

Information Security
It is quite worrisome that the offense is clearly overwhelming the defense. This clearly requires new approaches ... and quickly!

Link to the BW article.

OpenID - I just got one and most probably, you did too!
Today, Yahoo announced that they will support OpenID and that users will be able to use their Yahoo IDs to access other Open ID enabled sites. Here is the InfoWorld article with details on the topic.

I believe that OpenID has a real opportunity to reduce the number of ID / password each of have created on the web. However, it is a very tough problem to solve - remember Microsoft Passport?