The Growth of BYOD and Mobile Usage Requires Agencies to Reevaluate Security Policies

During the Blue Coat Federal User Group meeting, we sat down with Sasi Murthy, Senior Director of Product Marketing to discuss the growing impact that a mobile workforce is having on government agencies.  Now with the Federal CIO, Steven VanRoekel announcing the new digital strategy, it will be even more critical for agencies to manage devices, increase both network and web security and evaluate the usage on devices so the proper policies can be implemented.

 

Government Agencies Facing BYOD and Mobile Workforce Issues that Impact Security from bluecoat on Vimeo.

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  1. [...] == "undefined"){ addthis_share = [];}Last month, we sat down with Sasi Murthy and discussed the pros and cons of BYOD (bring your own device) and outlined specific best practices for federal agencies to employ.  Yet [...]

  2. [...] is laudable for security mobile devices, there are bigger and deeper challenges for developing comprehensive security programs with regard to BYOD.  For example, agencies need development solutions for managing application [...]

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