IGNORING the use of personally owned portable electronic devices in the corporate network is a trap IT departments must avoid, a study shows.
A briefing paper, titled Portable electronic devices (PEDs): a frog close to the boil, warns that Apple's iPhone and Google's Android will exacerbate the situation in the short term. It says IT managers must focus their response to PEDs on the corporate network or face a gradual but substantial drain on IT resources.