According to Gartner, 80% of organizations will have adopted cloud apps by 2015. The problem is that a lot of BYOD security solutions work well for internally developed applications, but don’t extend so readily to 3^rd party, cloud-based applications. Mobile Application Management is the mobility solution du jour, but it suffers from this exact issue. In many cases, cloud apps break when “wrapped” by MAM solutions. In other cases, wrapping breaks app vendor license agreements, or the vendors themselves refuse to provide the binaries required to accomplish wrapping.

The point is that you can’t wrap the cloud - it is very likely that your current BYOD solution won’t work as you move to cloud apps. Even if you aren’t considering a move to cloud today, you probably will be in the near future. 

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This is post 4 in a 7-part series on next-generation BYOD requirements. Read the prior posts here:

• A Knife Fight in a Phone Booth: How we got from BY-NO to BYO
• Next-Gen BYOD Requirement 1 of 6: BYOD security is all about data
• Next-Gen BYOD Requirement 2 of 6: In the midnight hour, I want more, more more…