With the complete explosion of
everything connecting, there is a good chance that many enterprises have
employee's that have already setup their Kindle Fire devices to access
corporate email, etc.
Nothing is really new on this front,
since many utility devices like ereaders, are typically running the Android
Operating System. The next part required on the device (secret sauce) is
their ability to communicate with email systems like Exchange via Microsoft's
ActiveSync protocol... Mix those two things together and put it onto any
device (camera, game console, car, internet connected Furby) and you have a recipe
for more enterprise data security concerns, pain, and angst... I'm
kidding about the internet connected Furby, but it sounds interesting...
This trend is only growing, so to get
in front of things, many of the MDM platforms have support with their device
side clients devices like the Kindle Fire. AirWatch just released an
update a few weeks ago, see clip here:
You probably will see more examples
connected devices getting corporate email, so just focus on how your enterprise
manages Android device security and secure mail. Many of the
platforms for Android include support for the Nitrodesk TouchDown email client
to manage corporate email.
Keep your eye out for some other class
devices accessing your corporate email over the next year or so (Xbox, Car,
Alarm Clock, etc)....
I'll also be presenting a webinar in
the early part of 2013 entitled "Who let Android into the
Enterprise?”. As the Android OS evolves, Google, third party
software vendors and device manufacturers are producing solutions to close many
of IT's concerns around Android.
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