BYOD Best Practices

The following best practices were developed by the Logicalis Customer Solutions Group and provide three critical steps you need to take to ensure that your wireless network will be ready when tomorrow arrives at your workplace.

1) Prepare Your Network
Assess and potentially upgrade your wireless network to ensure it’s capable of supporting additional bandwidth requirements of employee-owned mobile devices, to include adequate Quality of Service (QoS) controls for appropriate handling of critical traffic.

2) Implement Security Architecture and Policies
Review your IT Security Policy to address non-company owned mobile assets, to include:

• Definition of the allowed types of devices and OS's.
• Device and application ownership and management.
• Data loss prevention and compliance considerations.

Develop a granular network access strategy to address mobile devices, to include:

• Assignment of privileges based on user, device, location, and time of day.
• Implementation of identity management and network admission control technologies that deliver device profiling, posture, assessment, and/or remediation (i.e., Cisco ISE coupled with security elements of Cisco devices).
• Implementation of technologies for centralized authentication, authorization, and accounting.
• Use of content filtering technologies to enforce data loss prevention, threat prevention, acceptable use policies, and general access control (i.e., Cisco's AnyConnect Mobile Security coupled with Cisco's Iron Port products).

3) Monitor and Manage Activity
Implement a mobile device management (MDM) strategy that can provide complete provisioning, configuration, monitoring, and reporting for connecting BYOD mobile devices. (MDM products include FiberLink's Maas360, Tangoe's MDM, McAfee's EMM, and Sybase's Afaria.)

Implement centralized and comprehensive wireless management and monitoring tools that provide converged user access, and identity management with complete visibility into endpoint connectivity, regardless of device, network, or location.

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