Mobility Best Practices

Maximizing the Return on Enterprise Mobility
In a few short years, workforce mobility has grown from a convenience to a mission-critical corporate enabler that can determine an organization's fate. Mobility management has not kept pace, however. Today's processes and procedures, in many cases, lag behind the latest business requirements and technologies, leading to lapses in security, loss of productivity and a higher total cost of ownership. This executive report assesses the current state of mobility management, explores the key ingredients of an effective mobility management plan, and suggests a path forward to maximize enterprise mobility.

Mobile Usage Assessment
Enterprise mobility is a key topic on every CIO's agenda. Yet many organizations struggle to understand where to focus their mobility efforts. What is the root cause of this uncertainty? Lack of visibility into the usage patterns and needs of the mobile workforce. Increasingly, best-in-class mobile organizations are turning to mobility reports and analytics that expose the opportunity for improved mobile security policies, optimized cost control and the automation of mobile policy management. This paper shows how one organization utilized mobile visibility to optimize its mobile workforce.

Mobile Device Acceptable Use Policy
Provided courtesy of Info-Tech Research Group

This tool outlines the baseline behaviors required to ensure that employees, contractors and related constituents who use mobile devices, including laptop computers, PDAs, mobile phones, smartphones, and ultra-mobile PCs to access corporate resources for business use do so in a safe, secure manner. It is designed to maximize the degree to which private and confidential data is protected from both deliberate and inadvertent exposure and/or breach. As a signed document, it is an addition to the library of acceptable use policies on file within Human Resources that allow employee behaviors to be consistently managed.

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Wireless Security Access Policy and Agreement
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The purpose of this policy is to define standards, procedures, and restrictions for connecting to internal company network(s) or related technology resources via any means involving wireless technology.

The overriding goal of this policy is to protect the company's technology-based resources (such as corporate data, computer systems, networks, databases, etc.) from unauthorized use and/or malicious attack that could result in loss of information, damage to critical applications, loss of revenue, and damage to our public image. Therefore, all users employing wireless methods of accessing corporate technology resources must adhere to company-defined processes for doing so.

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Remote Access Policy and Agreement
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The purpose of this policy is to define standards, procedures, and restrictions for connecting to internal company network(s) from external hosts via remote access technology, and/or for utilizing the Internet for business purposes via third-party wireless Internet service providers (a.k.a. “hotspots”).

To protect company resources (i.e. corporate data, computer systems, networks, databases, etc.) from unauthorized use and/or malicious attack that could result in loss of information, damage to critical applications, loss of revenue, and damage to our public image; all remote access and mobile privileges for company employees to enterprise resources – and for wireless Internet access via hotspots – must employ only company-approved methods.

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Network Security Policy for Laptops
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Portable computers offer staff the ability to be more productive while on the move. They offer greater flexibility in where and when staff can work and access information, including information on our corporate network. However, network-enabled portable computers also pose the risk of data theft and unauthorized access to our corporate network.

Any device that can access the corporate network must be considered part of that network and therefore subject to policies intended to protect the network from harm. Any portable computer that is proposed for network connection must be approved and certified by the IT department.

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