Mobile Working

Something I have been considering for a while is how people work remotely in a safe and secure manner.
People want to be mobile, they want to be out there chatting with clients, they want to have few barriers to productivity.
This isn’t a fully formed blog post like it should be but some thoughts:

Mobile phones should be used to access content but they should no unique content on them. If you are going to use a mobile phone start with the permise that it is going to be lost and work out what would you do in that situation. So not having unique content on them means they are disposable, oh and they should be easily wiped and secure.

Dial up networking using mobiles: to ensure that people can gain access to what they need try to ensure that they can tether the mobile they are using to a laptop - means they don’t have to connect to some horrid wifi (if it is even available).

VPN offerings away from firewalls. Outside a corporate network employees need to be connected back via VPN to access resources. This should be painless. easy to control, stable and the default for every device that is in use. Avoid licenced products if you can as that will move you away from the “default” mindset.

Voip. Connecting employees to the internal phone system via voip does not mean carrying around a handset. There are softphones for laptops and for mobile phones - use them!!