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An IT Manager’s Guide to Managing Personal Devices in the Enterprise
from Sybase, An SAP Company

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Developing a strategy for managing and securing employees’ personally owned mobile devices is no longer avoidable. IT can secure the network for mobile devices without endangering corporate assets. These seven best practices will help protect your environment and provide employees the flexibility to use their personal devices without compromising critical enterprise resources.

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A good starting point for IT managers is to definitively identify who is accessing – or trying to access the network. Frequently this can be accomplished by auditing existing systems such as your Exchange Server, Microsoft ISA logs and desktop/laptops for the presence of local synchronization software.

If you don’t think any mobile devices are on your network, consider this example. A large national retailer implemented Exchange server gating software from Sybase at its corporate headquarters, and within just a few days its IT department determined that the company had more than 1,000 unauthorized Windows Mobile, Palm, iPhone, and Symbian devices on the corporate network.

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