Now, to be super clear – w e don’t allow access from phones and tablets to GCSx email accounts or any PSN data or systems.Īt this point I’ll quote Steve Halliday who has blogged eloquently on Solihull’s BYOD solution, (which is very similar to ours): This is wonderful app – it’s completely secure and allows documents to be annotated in a really intuitive way. In addition to Good many of our Members and senior officers use the Mod.gov app to give them access to Committee papers. But if they prefer to have a Council owned smartphone with Good on board then that’s fine too (we are phasing out Blackberries entirely and replacing them with smartphones + Good). If employees elect to have Good installed on their own, personal, smartphones or tablets (BYOD) then that’s great – it saves the Council some money. This technology is available to all staff (with line manager’s approval/business case). What’s more, data can’t be transferred out of Good and deposited elsewhere on the device. If someone loses their phone/tablet they let us know and we can remove Good and any Council data in a flash.
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The Council’s Intranet (and, therefore, a wealth of self-service resources).Good allows our employees to access lots of useful data from a smartphone or tablets, such as: We use Good for Enterprise for this – but there are several solutions to choose from. You need to deploy technology which ‘containerises’ the Council’s data. You don’t need to get hung up about whether these devices are Council owned or employee owned – the means of controlling them is the same regardless of ownership.
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I’m talking about iOS and Android tablets here – not Windows 8 tablets such as the MS Surface as these are basically just laptops which can easily connected to the Council’s network. The other category of ‘end point’ is smartphones and tablets. Work, after all, is a thing you do – not a place you go. Whatever they do in the office they can do at home – with no exceptions. When you put these 2 things together (a Council owned laptop and a secure connection) you have, in essence, turned the employee’s home (or wherever they are working) in to a Council office. This is relatively easy to do – we use Cisco’s An圜onnect product to deliver a VPN with 2-factor authentication. You also have to secure the connection – as per ‘point 2’ of our plan. Needless to say you have to encrypt the device – but you knew that already.
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My organisation now has a desk to person ratio of about 0.6 to 1 – so for every 1000 office based employees we have around 600 desks. I’m not privy to the details of the solutions that these Councils have in place – but I feel their pain. Others have been threatened with disconnection if they don’t change their architecture. Some have had to (temporarily) withdraw mobile working altogether. We are all aware that the PSN regime is causing much pain for some Councils. We take data security very, very seriously so we were delighted when the PSN/CESG people vetted our approach and confirmed that we’re complying with the rules. We allow BYOD for anyone who wants it and we have access to Council systems from smartphones and tablets (these can be Council owned or employee owned – it doesn’t really matter).Īround half of our 4500 computer users have the ability to work from home/remotely – should they want/need to – and many of them do. My Local Authority has recently achieved PSN accreditation (measured against the latest version of the CoCo).