When I said "it doesn't matter", I'm speaking to the technical points - not the commercials, legals, occupational health and safety etc. concerns.
FWIW, this bank is already offering this in Aus: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/suncorp-goes-byo-in-hardware-as-staff-are-encouraged-to-plug-in-their-devices/story-e6frgakx-1226029655986 Given their size (16,000 employees), I'm sure they've done their due diligence. Cheers Ken -----Original Message----- From: Alan Davies [mailto:adav...@cls-services.com] Sent: Monday, 17 October 2011 11:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Macs and vunerabilities Not true - you take on liability as an employer. You may protect the rest of your network to some extent with the example below, but it doesn't change your liability. And I'd still want a VPN in front of RDS/Citrix rather than direct access - you wouldn't put your Citrix servers direct on the Internet ... a -----Original Message----- From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: 17 October 2011 16:28 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Macs and vunerabilities You could provide all corporate services via VDI (RDS or Citrix). With other isolation techniques, it doesn't really matter what the end users bring in. Also have some policies for end-users to follow (e.g. installing AV - that can be managed centrally without them having to be part of a domain). There's at least one mid-tier bank in Aus doing this very thing (Suncorp-Metway) Cheers Ken ************************************************************************************ WARNING: The information in this email and any attachments is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the named addressee, you must not use, copy or disclose this email (including any attachments) or the information in it save to the named addressee nor take any action in reliance on it. If you receive this email or any attachments in error, please notify the sender immediately and then delete the same and any copies. "CLS Services Ltd × Registered in England No 4132704 × Registered Office: Exchange Tower × One Harbour Exchange Square × London E14 9GE" ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
