Reply to: Using own equipment on site

[malvolio]

Is it worth pointing out that hooking your kit to a remote access portal and proxied access like Citrix is not using your own kit on site, even if you're sat at one of their desks.

The original point was about plugging your kit onto a client network. Outside the LAN firewall, whose box it is doesnt matter a damn and is certainly not any kind of differentiator.

[ladymuck]

Does anyone take their own equipment when visiting NLyUK?

Depends on whether you want to get more than you paid for

[Scruff]

Does anyone shake their tool when visiting NLyUK?

Corrected

[BrilloPad]

Does anyone take their own equipment when visiting NLyUK?

[billybiro]

Most government organisations are moving to the cloud and a BYOD policy, maybe not for everything but progress is being made in general

This is true, and many private sector organisations were already there years ago.

For example, within the last 5 years, I haven't been with a single client that didn't have all of their relevant infrastructure / code / stuff-i-need-to-work-on in one of the major cloud providers (AWS/Azure/GCP etc.).

It's no surprise that it's the public sector, and specifically governmental depts, that are towards the right hand side on the "Diffusion of Innovations" adoption curve.

[SimonMac]

Check my Role on LinkedIn

[woohoo]

Mostly use my own laptop and software. I'm licensed up and usually my laptop is better than anything the client could provide.

I work mainly from home and have invested in a decent setup so I would think twice working for a client that forced me to use their equipment without good reason.

The only downside is my laptop ends up with various bits of software that clients need. Anything I'm not 100 sure is safe I usually install in a VM, don't have to do this often.

[TwoWolves]

FTFY

As stated unironically by a British Prime Minister, not a Russian one.

[Old Greg]

It's the post-truth era don't you know. So Putinesque.

FTFY

[TwoWolves]

Voting currently split 42%/38% so 4% in it.

I don't like the result so I insist on a people's vote. There was Russian interference. The CUK user community was lied to. No I am a Snowflake who cannot accept democracy. I am going to throw my toys out of my pram until I get my way.

It's the post-democratic era don't you know. So progressive.

[BrilloPad]

Voting currently split 42%/38% so 4% in it.

I don't like the result so I insist on a people's vote. There was Russian interference. The CUK user community was lied to. No I am a Snowflake who cannot accept democracy. I am going to throw my toys out of my pram until I get my way.

[Scruff]

Most government organisations are moving to the cloud and a BYOD policy, maybe not for everything but progress is being made in general

Check my Role on LinkedIn

[TwoWolves]

Seeing more and more clients operating a wifi cloud that does not connect to the corporate lan but allows you to then remote in via vpn sandbox or use cloud apps with extra security features. I think this is the model of the future evolving.

The current customer has given me AWS and Azure accounts.

[vetran]

I can use my own lappy to connect to Citrix desktop or to SharePoint, connecting over own wifi or tethering or client guest wifi. It's pretty painful and there are some corporate applications I can't access so in the end I asked client to provide a lappy.

Contract sanitation operatives like Billy can download an app onto their own phone to be directed to clock in and out and to action big jobs.

you know you shouldn't be using your professional name 'Billy no mates' on the forum NLyUK gets upset.

[b0redom]

As others have said.... it depends. The last 4 have, the previous before 7 haven't......

I know of at least one who refused based on the fact that they used to allow it, but then someone connected a BYOD (without sufficient protection) over the VPN and accidentally released a malware attack. As they were connected to a Windows host the malware began recursively encrypting everything on all the network shares they had access to. That caused a LOT of damage, and the client then became very BYOD averse.

Most of what I do now is cloud based, so theoretically it can be run from anywhere with a terminal session, git and a web browser.