Does your company allow people to bring their own device yet ? If not do you plan to? And if you do... how do you present your corporate image to those people ?
Currently my company does not allow BYOD, they do however allow corporately purchased iPhones and iPads. There are currently no plans to allow any other type of device. That being said, we do broadcast a guest wireless network as well and it can be utilized by true guests, vendors, etc. it has web authentication with credentials that are created by our help desk that they create per user and expire at a maximum of 8 hours later. We ended up using lightweight access points, wireless LAN controllers and identity services engines. We have one corporate SSID boradcast and based on what device you connect with, that determines whether you get onto the corporate network or switched out locally to DSL or a cable modem (depends on what that site has). Other devices are kept out based on what they get profiled as and then credentials are run against an active directory group or an internal store.
I think that a lot of companies are avoiding BYOD just because of all the possible headaches that could come with it, after all would your internal IT department support these devices ? And if not would your end users be smart enough to call the manufacturer for support ?
The headaches are tremendous with users. Our help desk and PC techs support the devices to an extent and then refer them to a 3rd party company that we have our cell contract through for anything they can't solve.
And finally my last question is .... does your organization ever plan to make bringing your own device mandatory?
No, they don't allow the majority of devices as it is. We do have the equipment and network to support it, everyone could be authenticated through an active directory group, etc. to make sure it is secure, but they are afraid that users will be doing more online socializing than work and that plant worked will be hiding out and playing games. I have even been approached by plants that want to see if they can get cell signal blockers installed into their locations to stop the current things people are doing over 3g and 4g.