Over 25 years ago, I remember being confused when I learned that my father, a manufacturing line machinist and engineer, personally bought and brought most of the tools he used at work, instead of using the tools available in the factory work shop. Interestingly, today’s knowledge workers often do just the same thing – they bring their own tools to work. These days, what confuses and challenges most of us, is how to manage the security of all these devices, given their unpredictable context. If only the security concerns were just as simple as they were 25 years ago.

The Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) era is clearly here and well founded. As the New York Times... read more >