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GOOD TECHNOLOGY | FEATURED INTERVIEW
It's the critical lifeblood of these you can then see that email can actually have going to be a tiny part of a much more complex, towards providing the clarity of what is
organisations, and that's what enterprise a pretty big impact on a business. much broader landscape in a year or two. corporate space and what is personal space,
mobility has become. and not letting who pays the bill become the
MWD: HOW SHOULD ENTERPRISES Right now we're still talking about employee- friction point.
MWD: WHAT ARE THE MOST BE ADDRESSING SECURITY ISSUES IN facing applications. Do you let them buy their
CRITICAL CHALLENGES BEING FACED THE LIGHT OF SUCH CYBER device or do you buy a device for them? You MWD: WHAT LIES AHEAD FOR
NOW BY ENTERPRISES AS THEY ATTACKS? haven't even started the conversation about ENTERPRISE MOBILITY
INCREASINGLY EMBRACE MOBILE wearables, the Internet of Things, M2M, all of MANAGEMENT?
DEVICES, APPLICATIONS AND CW: The first assumption that every these other places where your data could leak.
MANAGED SOLUTIONS WITHIN THE enterprise should make is that somebody is CW: Our view is that this is an increasingly
WORKPLACE? trying to compromise you right now: Is BYO important? Yes it is. Som e of the complex network of things. It's not just
breaches are going to happen; devices will get friction points we've seen with customers mobile; it's going to be fixed and mobile; on
CW: I think that you have this interesting stolen; accounts will get hacked. The devices have been with some of the older MDM big and small screens. The same CIO who is
dynamic where users are far more themselves are going to be compromised if technologies; there was concern about data thinking about how to provide email to an
comfortable with mobile devices than they they're not already. privacy if you're actually using MDM on the executive will also have to think about how to
have been with any other piece of technology entire device. protect data that is going back and forth to
in their lives. You don't reach for your PC So you have to assume you have to protect the vending machine that they're supporting.
when you open your eyes in the morning. So your data no matter what. What is the right We've also seen concerns about who pays Or to the retail floor or manufacturing space;
I think users then get a much bigger vote in platform to do that? That's what we focus on. for the data plan. Again, I think Good or out to their end business users and
terms of what they're doing on their device, That's what we're the experts in. Technology has removed a lot of those customers. When data is travelling the
how it's configured, what they'd like. friction points with our investments both in concerns are different, and the kind of
MWD: DO YOU THINK THAT our platform and creating clear lines between application might just be different. But the
But at the end of the day, if the IT department ENTERPRISES HAVE ADAPTED WELL the corporate assets and the personal assets. approach remains the same.
is putting data on that device, it has to remain TO THE “BYOD” TREND? We don't violate the end user's privacy.
accountable for that data. That doesn't
necessarily mean they need to take over the CW: I think that with the kinds of mobility We have also invested in split billing,
entire device. And I think getting organisations to strategies we see companies deploying, BYO is which we believe is a great step forward
a point where they're clear on the problem
they're trying to solve, and in what phase of their “My hope for this year
mobility strategy, is one of the biggest challenges. would be that we start to
Because when you first start the conversation in see the maturation of not
this market it's very noisy. It's very hard to just the platforms and
differentiate. Companies need to ask themselves: tools but also the complex
"Where is my data? Who do I want to have mobility strategies.”
access to it, on what device and where? What are
the risks? What would happen if somebody else
got this data?” And then they need to know what
the right tools are to provide all that.
Through 2013 and 2014 lots of folks were
saying, “I don't need a significant security
technology for my employees’ devices. I can
just use simple Exchange ActiveSync because
all my users have is email." And then
something like the Sony breach happens, and
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