Here's my latest piece from TechRepublic. A lot of fun doing this one!
Excerpted below.
The top 10 apps being blacklisted in the enterprise
Takeaway: Whether they’re regarded as productivity killers or security risks, many apps have made it onto company blacklists.
Thanks to the invasion of personal apps, services, and hardware in enterprise, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that smart IT pros out to protect data are conducting a wholesale blacklisting of the apps they find most threatening to data security.
Zenprise, a mobile device management company that specializes in BYOD, recently released itsZenprise MDM Cloud Report. The report includes the top 10 apps that enterprises are blacklisting (or attempting to blacklist) in the United States and globally. The list is theirs. The snide commentary, mine. So here they are. The 10 most blacklisted apps this month, in descending order.
Note: This list is also available as a photo gallery.
1: Angry Birds
Would someone please muster up the courage to tell the CEO to stop with the slingshot already?
2: Facebook
Imagine an update like, “I am sitting here listening to our blowhard manager give a talk that could fell a tree.”
3: Google Play
Buying apps on company time? And potentially with company money? Hard stop.
4: Dropbox
Worst case: Employee walks off with your company data and Dropbox is installed on four of her computers. Nuff said.
5: Skype
Now this is what you want. Folks texting and calling relatives all over the world. It puts a whole new spin on the idea of personal calls at work, doesn’t it?
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