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Forrester Research's Industry Contexts And Constraints Diversify Approaches To Bring-Your-Own-Technology
This report examines how and why bring-your-own-technology (BYOT) varies across 20 industries. We identify the BYOT adoption trends that CIOs must consider in the context of rapid tech evolution, a changing vendor landscape, and the entrance of new devices like tablets and frame computers onto the enterprise scene. Many employees are galloping toward a future in which they call the shots about which hardware, software, and services to use, while management remains concerned about security requirements. This creates tension between BYOT adoption and workforce mobility on the one hand and security issues on the other. BYOT will not happen in a vacuum; instead, CIOs will align BYOT, mobility, and security with their engagement strategies and new business models.

IDC Analyst Connection: Managing and Securing Mobile Applications in Today's BYOD Enterprise Environments
With the consumerization of IT, technology innovation is centered on consumer devices that are more sophisticated and user friendly and that enable greater staff productivity than those provided by employers. In addition, new applications sourced from app stores are also empowering the employees who use these devices. Yet with the rush to rapidly leverage mobile apps, companies often fail to establish effective application life-cycle processes or secure data management guidelines. An effective enterprise mobile strategy must include an approach to creating secure end-to-end mobile applications and leveraging third-party applications appropriately. In this paper written by IDC, learn important considerations and best practices for securing mobile applications in BYOD environments.

Gartner Media Tablets and Beyond: The Impact of Mobile Devices on Enterprise Management
The growing smartphone base combined with huge sales of media tablets is forcing a reassessment of the client platform and IT best practices to support it. Controlling burgeoning costs driven by device heterogeneity and bring-your-own-device models, while maintaining agility, is imperative. In this Gartner report, “Media Tablets and Beyond: The Impact of Mobile Devices on Enterprise Management,” Ken Dulaney examines this growing complexity and provides recommendations for how enterprises can effectively manage a diverse portfolio of devices.

Gartner’s Checklist: Determining Enterprise Readiness to Support Employee-Owned Devices
BYOD continues to expand throughout enterprises around the globe, bringing with it productivity gains, employee satisfaction, and potential cost savings. With these benefits come exposure to increased data and device management risks as well as increased complexity for IT. A successful BYOD program has multiple phases and touches multiple stakeholders. Use this handy checklist to help you navigate through your own BYOD implementation.

Fierce MobileIT’s “Securing the Mobile Workforce”
The rise of BYOD programs in the enterprise has introduced new questions to those in charge of enterprise mobility. Though a BYOD model can mean increased productivity and revenue gains for your organization, it also brings into question security risks, increased complexity, and user privacy concerns. Fierce MobileIT’s ebook, “Securing the Mobile Workforce,” covers the trends and challenges of securing corporate data on employee owned devices.

Aberdeen’s Analyst Report
Aberdeen’s analyst reports provide a unique perspective on the trends in corporate mobility and the rise in Bring-Your-Own Devices within large enterprises. This insightful article describes the steps IT organizations can take to cost-effectively manage their mobile workforce, while supporting the productivity benefits and collaboration that are fundamental to the BYOD movement.

Via Forensics Mobile Security Risk Report
Is a tidal wave of consumer mobile devices flooding your workplace? You’re not alone. Most IT professionals are under pressure from mobile professionals, who have a strong preference for Bring Your Own Device or BYOD. Rather than fight the growing tide, smart IT is looking for ways to give employees greater mobility.

Yankee Group - Latest Enterprise Mobility Survey: Sometimes Less Control Means More Productivity
The right mobile devices provided to the right employee segments can dramatically boost productivity. Letting employees choose their own devices can gain your company even greater returns. Finally: Meeting employees halfway on carrier bills is one of the best things you can do for business. Read all about it in the new Yankee Group Mobility Report.

Good Technology White Papers

Balancing Mobile Technology Risk With Productivity
IT administrators responsible for keeping the financial services industry up-and-running and productive are keenly aware just how much their firms benefit from mobile technologies. Brokers, agents, processors, managers and other client services personnel can interact with applications more easily and efficiently—on-the-go within corporate offices as well as from home, on the road, or in the air. Whether using smartphones, tablets or laptops, all personnel can share and process information in ways that not only improve client services, but also streamline administrative tasks such as trade execution and client billing as well as critical and timely data exchanges with business partners.

Mobile App Security through Containerization: 10 Essential Questions
Mobile devices present a unique dilemma to the enterprise. On the one hand, workers empowered with tablets and smartphones can transform the way they do business; they’re more agile, closer to customers, and more productive. Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) programs give users the freedom to work on the devices of their own choosing, while still allowing an enterprise to reap the productivity benefits of these always connected, readily accessible mobile devices.

Balancing Mobile Healthcare Risk With Productivity
Healthcare IT are keenly aware of just how much their healthcare organizations benefit from mobile technologies. Doctors, nurses and other clinicians can interact with applications and each other more easily and efficiently—on-the-go within healthcare facilities as well as from home, on the road, or in the air. But when selecting mobile technology, healthcare organizations face a large roadblock: the missing or limited security features and controls that mobile devices and supporting mobile applications introduce. This whitepaper examines the various process efficiencies that healthcare organizations gain by adopting a business-enabling mobile platform and how to employ supporting technologies to protect patient information so lives can be saved and regulations can be adhered to.

Good Vault Whitepaper
Effective Identity and Access Management in a Mobile World. Few developments have created more IT disruption in the past five years than the explosion of mobile devices in the workplace. Organization after organization has reaped the benefits of mobile devices for employee productivity, collaboration, and customer communication and satisfaction. Hand in hand with the mobile explosion has been the trend of employees bringing their own devices to work, called Bring Your Own Device or BYOD, which has enhanced employee satisfaction, productivity, and competitive advantage in companies looking to hire the best of the younger generation or fulfill the needs of traveling executives.

Transforming Public Sector through Secure Mobile Workflows 
Government agencies are rapidly embracing mobility as a means to transform their organizations. These agencies are aggressively pursuing application development projects to help public sector employees increase efficiency and productivity through mobile workflows. This whitepaper discusses public sector mobility challenges, application use case examples, and Good’s solution to help agencies deliver greater user productivity.

Effective Identity and Access Management in a Mobile World 
One of the key components of most organizations’ information security strategies is robust identity and access management (IAM)—the technology and practices used to positively identify users accessing sensitive applications and confidential information and to control their access and use privileges over time. This white paper explores the Good Vault and Good Trust solutions: a new paradigm for identifying what someone has or is, as a way to unlock their mobile apps. 

Are You App Able?
Beyond the basics of email and calendar to LOB advantages: Mobile Apps
For once, high-tech industries are technology laggards. With service industries leading the adoption of mobile app software, traditional businesses are gaining productivity and revenue growth as they move beyond mobile email to line of business apps that enable workflows, collaboration, and communication. The mobile development talent pool continues to grow and security technology has become painless. With that, mobile app deployment has become fast, easy, and scalable. In this whitepaper, you’ll learn how to secure apps that allow enterprises to capture the most value from the exploding mobile opportunity – and what it means to your bottom line.

Give ALL the People What They Want (Safely)
Data-Centric BYOD Can Satisfy Both Employees and IT
Face it. Modern workers are addicted to mobile devices. Not just any vanilla corporate-issued devices, but our carefully selected and personalized expressions of ourselves: iPads®, iPhones®, Androids™, and whatev¬er-comes-next. Many of us get to use our devices in the office: 6 out of 10 businesses have welcomed the savings, satisfaction, and simplicity of BYOD programs enabling corporate application and network access from employee-owned devices. Another 32% plan to move to BYOD soon. In supporting employee devices, companies tend to exert either very little control, or a stifling amount of con¬trol. The approach taken depends on which community has the upper hand: the employees or IT. Read this paper to learn how you can give the people what they want without trading off employee preference and privacy for IT policies and priorities.

A Business Case for Secure Mobile Collaboration
The new productivity is driven by a generation of secure, collaborative mobile apps that let employees do more with their devices. By keeping workflows integrated and safe, these apps promote greater levels of collaboration and convenience in the areas of document retrieval, storage, editing, and transmission. These benefits, as well as costs, risks, and solutions are provided in the framework of a business case in our latest paper, “A Business Case for Mobile Collaboration.” This paper examines the business benefits of enabling mobile app workflows and elaborates on the business drivers behind supporting a secure collaboration strategy. Examines use cases of leaders driving productivity via mobility. The paper reviews the costs and benefits of opening mobile access to fuel interactions between employees.

A Business Case for Enterprise Mobility Management
Managing a diverse environment of devices, apps, and use cases in a manner that’s not just secure, but also cost efficient and scalable, can be challenging. The key to managing this diversity is to focus on data management, not device management. In our latest paper, “A Business Case for Enterprise Mobility Management,” we provide a framework for constructing a business case for enterprise mobility management.

Collaboration without Compromise
In the wake of BYOD’s proliferation in the enterprise, mobile users are once again pushing the boundaries of enterprise IT, using consumer applications to support business collaboration. In this whitepaper, Good SVP and Forbes contributor, John Herrema discusses how a secure mobile collaboration strategy can provide flexibility, enhance productivity, and protect privacy.

Mobile Content Collaboration and its Benefits Across Your Enterprise
Organizations that want the benefits of a highly productive mobile workforce need to start by putting enterprise-grade mobile data access and content collaboration technology in place.

Bring Your Own Devices Best Practices Guide
The consumerization of IT is coming to your business. It’s a given that employees will either bring their own smartphones and tablets into the workplace or will want to work on these devices when away from the office. Mass adoption of smartphones, tablets, and a variety of mobile applications has set expectations, causing the “I want my iPad” phenomenon to ripple through workplaces.

BYOD Policy Consideration (Security)
As more and more of your employees begin using their own iOS and Android devices for work purposes, you have a tremendous opportunity. Launching a "bring your own device" (BYOD) program can help you reduce mobile expenses. Drive employee satisfaction. And increase the productivity of your workforce. But first, you'll need to identify which employees are eligible to bring their own devices. And then know the mobile applications they require to be productive.
This report will help you Build a reliable security strategy for employee mobile devices, Define financial reimbursement policies and Develop mobile support policies.

Securing Patient Data in Today's Mobilized Healthcare Industry
The modern mobile worker is radically transforming healthcare. Time-stretched doctors now rely on smartphones and tablets to keep connected while they keep moving. In hospitals andclinics throughout the country, these no-nonsense, independent, and demanding clinicians are already using iPhones, iPads, and Windows Phone devices to access electronic medical records, view radiological images, reference medical journals, or file prescriptions electronically—in addition to carrying out regular email, collaboration, and backoffice processes. The use of mobile technology has been justified: a recent survey found that healthcare professionals save as much as a half-hour per day using mobile apps. But how can IT keep all this data secure?

Good Technology State of BYOD Report
A variety of mobile devices have taken root in the enterprise. Android phones and tablets, iPads and iPhones have become increasingly popular, and the public's desire for these devices has propelled the consumerization of IT. For IT, employee passion to use personal devices and an overall desire by companies to reduce costs, are rendering the traditional model of supporting only company‐owned devices increasingly obsolete. As Good’s survey results show, enterprises are widely embracing Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) programs, including the most highly‐regulated and security‐conscious industries.

Good Dynamics Whitepaper
Mobility has become synonymous with productivity in the modern enterprise. Everyday business routines have been transformed by the ability to remotely access mission-critical corporate information from the road. Because mobile workers are always connected, highly pragmatic, independent, and demanding, enterprise application developers are constantly challenged with having to deliver secure mobile applications quickly enough to satisfy the needs of their end users. This whitepaper shows you how to effectively negotiate ensuring enterprise app security while maintaining the velocity required in today's enterprise.

Data Loss Prevention Whitepaper: When Mobile Device Management Isn't Enough
Organizations are turning to Mobile Device Management (MDM) solutions to better secure, monitor, manage and support the variety of mobile devices used by their employees. However, in many instances, MDM alone is not enough to prevent data loss. This paper presents Good for Enterprise and its unique approach to managing security on mobile devices, which does address some of the shortcomings of an MDM-only strategy.

Increasingly On the Go: Mobility Compliance in Regulated Industries
Learn how financial institutions, healthcare companies, government agencies, and other regulated entities maintain successful—and compliant—mobile deployments.

Securing Business Mobility
Managing mobility is an ever increasing challenge, especially as more and more users demand support for popular new platforms and devices. Good for Enterprise™ provides critical security and management features that allow corporate IT to secure and control the most popular devices on the market. You can rest easy with over-the-air and on-device encryption of enterprise data, remote application password policies, and remote wipe of enterprise data across a wide range of handsets including the newest Apple and Android devices.

Managing the Mobile Enterprise
A guide for creating effective enterprise wireless strategies. The key to turning wireless information access into a strategic IT initiative that delivers tangible ROI is developing an enterprise wireless information access strategy. Building such a strategy requires the cooperation of IT and business managers who together determine how wireless information access can be used to improve productivity, customer responsiveness and other key metrics within their business.

Best Practices for Globally Deploying Wireless Messaging
This paper describes the key issues a multi-national enterprise needs to consider when determining the requirements for deploying a global wireless messaging project. The paper also describes how Good Mobile Messaging and Good Mobile Control, components of the Good for Enterprise™ solution, address those key issues, and finally, provides two case studies of recent Good Technology customer deployments.