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Mobility and your IT infrastructure: Top Solution(s)?
What's been the most valuable or helpful tool in your kit for integrating mobility support into your IT infrastructure management?
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Careful consideration.
Mobile and/or fixed remote access points need to have additional layers of security not only on the machines themselves, but in the way they have access to any aspect of the corporate network and/or infrastructure. It can't be assumed that anything attempting to connect to a corporate portal or wireless point is (a) a corporate machine, (b) clean and clear of infections and malware, or (c) being used by an authorized person.
Solutions which fail to take these issues into account, no matter which tools they use, are a point of failure waiting to happen.
On top of this, there's the issue of mobile access itself. How is it going to happen? Will it involve finding a phone point and plugging in? Using a public WiFi point? Will it need a satellite link, if it's going to be used by field officers well away from cities? Or will you just need an encrypted wireless link because the mobile device will never leave the corporate premises?
Are you going to have, for example, laptops which may have several of these connection options to reduce costs or increase bandwidth where available? How complex and/or automated will the connection-choosing process be? Are people who use the mobile devices going to WANT to connect to the office, or are they going to consider it so annoying and difficult that they only check in once a month? Human factors are an issue in these considerations, not just software and hardware.
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