[olug] iCloud in the business world

Brian Roberson roberson at bstc.net
Mon Jun 13 12:51:05 UTC 2011


Most bigger shops you will see the increased use of data loss
prevention (dlp) architectures and appliances.



On Jun 9, 2011, at 3:23 PM, George De Bruin <sndchaser at gmail.com> wrote:

> There's always email...  I have yet to see a company that wouldn't allow
> sending external emails. :)  If you can email it, it can go anywhere...even
> if it takes you 10+ messages to send it. :)
>
> IMO - iCloud isn't going to be any worse to manage than using things like
> Google Apps, or GMail.  Sure there are some things that might be easily
> blocked, like the streaming services or dropbox style functionality, but
> overall I don't see it posing more of a challenge that Android already does.
>
> George
>
> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Barry Von Ahsen <barry at vonahsen.com> wrote:
>
>> I expect it would mostly depend on what access you give mobile devices to
>> your internal resources (which is a whole other policy PITA) - if they can't
>> get in to get the resources, they can't push them out to iCloud
>>
>>
>> apple has released management software, but I have no experience with it
>>
>> http://www.apple.com/support/iphone/enterprise/
>>
>> -barry
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 6/9/2011 1:53 PM, Hurley, Rod wrote:
>>
>>> Might as well start this conversation early, as it will come up in
>>> meetings throughout the world.  Simply put, will the new iCloud make it hard
>>> as an IT admin to manage data retention policies, security, and legal
>>> discovery?  We have users that insist on using their own iPads, etc, and
>>> that's fine, but how does the iCloud change things?
>>>
>>> Rod Hurley, SCSE, SQSVA
>>> Tenaska, Inc.
>>> P402-758-6187
>>> C402-981-9561
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