BYOD

BYOD offers many advantages and will continue to grow, with Gartner predicting half of employers will require employees to supply their own devices for work purposes by 2017. BYOD can create many benefits from cost savings, increased productivity, engaged workforce, and greater data interactions, but in reality many companies have struggled to realize the benefits of BYOD. From a lack of mobile policies to continued corporate reimbursement for supposed-BYOD devices,...

When it comes to your BYOD policy, it’s time to stop thinking about the device and start thinking about the data. As summarized by Absolute Software’s CEO John Livingston for SiliconANGLE, setting up separate policies based on device type (phone, tablet, portable media, laptop, desktop) is both an “inefficient and expensive experience.” A typical employee will use many different device types which can leave IT trying to juggle too many...

There’s a reason that TIME magazine recently ran a story calling cell phone theft an epidemic: with over 113 cell phones lost or stolen every minute in the US and thefts accounting for over $30 billion in 2012 (not including potential losses of personal or breaches of sensitive corporation information), mobile theft has become the next big crime epidemic. Ireland recently released that nearly 8,000 smartphones were stolen in the first 6 months of...

Recently, Attachemate Corporation and the Ponemon Istitute released the second annual “Risk of Insider Fraud” report indicating that it takes 87 days to first recognize an instance of insider fraud and more than 3 months to get at the cause of the fraud. Insider fraud is defined as a malicious act by employees to steal financial or information assets. In nearly three quarters of respondents, employee malfeasance has caused...

Chairman and CEO of Absolute Software, John Livingston, recently published an article for Business Insider entitled “How To Pivot Your Company Without Alienating Dedicated Customers.” The article discusses how adaptive organizations can pay off, if executed on the right strategy. As John notes in the article, it is up to the CEO to accurately execute the pivot strategy in a way that evolves the company naturally. “When done properly...