Our various teams have invested some regular time these last 2 weeks meeting with Cisco, Sophos, VMWare, NetApp, Aruba, among others — to discuss the future roadmap of technology at WOU. Some vendors we’ve worked with in the past – others are new to us, but have excellent reputations and technologies that we are interested in learning more about.
In particular, we are looking at MDM (mobile device management) both for University-owned devices (iPads, etc…) and personal devices (my Android phone – for example).
Various security measures (remote wipe, remote install, app restrictions, …) are able to be applied to groups of devices accessing the WOU systems. This is a new area of access/security/management, so we are learning all we can 🙂