The London Borough of Camden has deployed an IT product to make collaboration and BYOD a secure and compliant reality for its employees.
As part of the north London borough’s strategic IT plan, it began looking at ways to save money, improve digital security and modernise the core IT used by employees. The creation of a BYOD strategy was seen as a way to meet this aim through improved productivity, reduced IT equipment costs and the fostering of happier employees by giving them the freedom to use devices of their own choosing for business-related activities.
The borough also sought internal controls around where and how its corporate data was stored, accessed and transferred. The system needed strict regulatory compliance to mandate levels of security and access dependent on the type of data, such as personal identification. The solution also needed seamless compatibility with SharePoint, supported through Accellion’s kitepoint feature, to provide employees with an interface that has minimal management overhead. The borough turned to Qolcom – for platform recommendations.
Ian Lawrence, IT Manager at Camden, said: “Accellion acts as the single platform for users to access, review and collaborate on content from mobile devices of their choosing, as well as meeting all of our security and compliance requirements. Now we have a solution that’s integrated with our device management tools and SharePoint, allowing us to securely mobilize our most important content and make BYOD a reality.”
From an IT security standpoint, the borough has real-time visibility into all mobile file sharing activities, maintaining an audit trail if needed for regulatory reporting. All accounts are integrated with LDAP, giving its IT staff full control over user accounts. Each piece of data that is shared or edited is encrypted both in transit and at rest. Finally, Accellion provided a private-cloud, on-premise deployment option, a government regulation that is enforced so no data is stored on public servers.
The project is undergoing a phased rollout – first for key executives, followed by the next level of management and then remaining employees. Employees now access and collaborate on important documents via iOS and Android smartphones and tablets, whenever and wherever.
