I have been reading a few interesting articles about the consumerisation of the (IT) enterprise (including here and here). Basically this trend is driven by employees using more and more their personal devices, possibly along with services in the cloud, to carry out their work activities.
This is indeed already happening in a few countries and for SMEs, where cost cutting, little bureaucracy and effectiveness are key driving aspects. However, it looks like that this trend is becoming also important for medium-large organisations.
Inevitably this has some cons: lack of control, potentially confidential data and information disseminated all over the places, data losses, lack of enforcement of basic security policies on devices, increased reliance on third parties and their (security and privacy) practices, etc.
Last but not least, this has profound implications for the roles of CIOs and CISOs: they will increasingly lose control on the enterprise’s IT infrastructure (or whatever will remain of it …) and the way they mandate policies.
I wonder if any study is available providing an analysis of the longer terms transformation of the enterprise and the role of CIOs/CISOs. I am looking for: so far I have not yet found anything too much relevant …
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