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Enterprise Mobility and Secure
Smart Devices
Christopher Henry
Chief Information Officer
CIO Summit, Montreal, Canada
February 12, 2013
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Agenda
Enterprise Mobility and Secure Smart Devices
1. Innovation
2. Device people, use and funding approaches
3. Mobile Device Management System
– Security and Telecom Expense Management
4. Device data roaming, enablement, reporting and
proactive cost containment
5. Document encryption, confidentiality and portability
6. Apps and application portability to mobile devices
7. Desktop portability to mobile devices
Innovation – "see a need, fill a need"
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Continuous innovation
• Continuous innovation (typically)
– improves the way things are accomplished – improves efficiency and effectiveness
• Innovation is driven in organizations by – people (everyone)
– customers
– your industry and other industries "the adjacent possible" by Steven Johnson, The Natural History of Innovation
• Caution: Not everyone wants innovation all the time, there is a time and place for it.
Key
building blocks
of today's businesses
Mobile devices – Disruption or Enablement?
People
Systems and
technology
Processes and
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2012 Gartner Matrix for
Mobile Device Management Software
Device people, use and funding approaches
Approach depends on business requirements
Suggestion: Blended program of BYOD and CYOD.
Bring Your Own Device – BYOD Choose Your Own Device – CYOD
Employee chooses device, OS and upgrade timing.
Company chooses device, OS and upgrade timing.
Employee funds device and monthly costs.
Company funds device and monthly costs (depends on businessrequirements role/payback/enterprise apps). Acceptable use policy, awareness
and training.
Acceptable use policy, awareness and training.
Mobile device management system. Mobile device management system. Encrypted file access and sharing
platform.
Encrypted file access and sharing platform.
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Mobile device management systems
Key features
1. Ongoing support for all mobile device platforms
2. Security settings for supported device types and OS
3. Short software release lifecycle and roadmap
4. Cloud and enterprise integration
5. Active directory integration to lighten administration
6. Exchange PowerShell
7. Secure internal access proxy
8. Secure internal web browser
Mobile device management systems
Key features
9. Solution developer kit
10. Encrypted app on devices and computers for moving,
sharing and storing internal public and private documents from and between SharePoint, devices, servers and
computers.
11. Custom app store
12. Easy deployment support 13. Partial to full device wiping
14. Telecom expense management
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Device data roaming, enablement, reporting and
proactive cost containment
Document encryption, confidentiality and portability
Go beyond native mobile device encryption
(ie. Accellion, box.net, Watchdox)
• Enterprise encrypted file access and sharing platform. • Cloud and on-premise options.
• Encrypted App on mobile devices and computers for editing, moving, sharing and storing internal public and private documents from and between internal SharePoint, mobile devices, servers and computers as well as with
external parties.
• Some offer secure email delivery via https:// URL via Exchange/Outlook integration.
• Some offer distributed file encryption, digital rights management and time bomb functionality.
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Apps and application portability to mobile devices
• Solution Developer Kits are available from MDM providers to integrate with enterprise apps.
App Type Portability Interface Data Login Airplane mode
Examples Native That device On
device On device App based Yes it works Starbucks taxplanningg uide.ca CDMMedia Native Hosted That device On device Internal-external hosting On startup, LDAP possible No it doesn't work GTI People Directory Responsive website Any device with web kit browser support Internal-external hosting Internal-external hosting On startup, LDAP possible No it doesn't work jobs.osisko.c om
Desktop portability to mobile devices
Powered by virtualization
(ie. stone-ware, mokafive, orchardparc)
• Example
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Questions?
References
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Rodney Copperbottom – Robots movie (2005)
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