The mobility trend holds great promise for improved productivity
and new engagement models. These are most powerful in a learning
effort—imagine learning anywhere and anytime. I just wish I had
the Internet and the mobility that students have today when I
went to school. Yet, mobility is an IT tsunami that will not
recede. One of the most damaging aspects of this storm is the
possibility of numerous personal devices that are entering
organizations, accessing the network and eventually critical
assets, and stealing sensitive data or mistakenly bringing
malware. Many people know this policy as BYOD or bring your own
device. This is not a new phrase but it is still quite
prevalent. Inventory and provisioning of personal mobile devices
is just the tip of this wave. Organizations want to control
mobile devices to ensure acceptable usage and minimize security
incidents. Educational institutions (the training grounds for
our next workforce) are seeing this each day. Mobile devices
create a great opportunity to expan