An interesting article posted on Banks & Systems Technology by Penny Crossman. This would surely be excellent news for the security vendors.
Banks and BYOC (Bring Your Own Computer, in other words, letting employees use their own computers to work from home and abroad) are two concepts that appear on the surface to be as compatible as oil and water or Obama and the iPad. Security, policy, and compliance issues make the idea seem absurd. But according to Dale Fuller, CEO of MokaFive, who stopped by this evening after having taken a red-eye flight to New York City from California last night and met with bankers all day (we’ve never seen a CEO seem so genuinely grateful for a cup of coffee), many large banks have already adopted a type of desktop virtualization whereby the organization sends a mostly locked-down desktop image to any device, even an iPad or smart phone. (more)
