To appease Dept of Defense security problems, UYOD can be the first step to true federal BYOD

To appease Dept of Defense security problems, UYOD can be the first step to true federal BYOD -

We all know about the Bring-Your-Own-device asks always riveting discussion among government agencies. Dept defense agencies are particularly opposed because of the underlying security issues in the exposure of non-GFE personal devices to a secure defense network. It was no different at the town hall meeting Mobility Exchanges there are only a few weeks when I had the dubious honor of moderating the "BYOD in Action" session, featuring the CTO of the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) -.. Mr. Joshua Lashbrook

We launched the discussion with the mention of BYOD Toolkit federal CIO Council published last year in this document, there were three key solutions for BYOD that were recommended in as part of the management (I talked about this already in my earlier blog here). for our discussion at the MWE session, we concentrated mainly on virtualization because it has a long history proven in organizations federal and responded to the specific security needs by eliminating data at rest concerns about defense agency settings.

M .. Lashbrook length about moving to DLA App / Desktop Virtualization and how he made profit for a program "home" to empower employees of his agency for telework and COOP scenarios.

DLA CTO Joshua Lashbrook accepts 2013 Tele-Vision "domicile" price DLA program

"home" program DLA allows 28,000 employees across several field sites to use their personal devices to their home network using only the Citrix Receiver, a product CAC reader for authentication and simple anti-virus software. One of the participants of the session asked a poignant issue - if a user has no right to "make" their non-GFE device in the office, only to "use" their non-GFE home appliance - can -it really be a "BYOD" program?

is that federal agencies really want a policy that allows non-GFE devices be physically plugged into a secure federal network? Several commercial companies implement BYOD policies, generally create a single WiFi network that provides Internet access only to help secure this treats all BYOD users physically located on-site or off-site "corporate LAN. " - That remote users. Although this type of architecture can not be an immediate reality for federal agencies, providing "remote" Use-Your-Own-Device (UYOD) access at home for non-GFE devices may be a common ground that would allow users any federal architecture and network policies can catch

learn more about the Defense Logistics Agency program in the following white paper to learn how they leveraged virtualization as a step towards a federal true BYOD program :.

Whitepaper: DLA performs agility through teleworking and BYOD strategy

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