The majority of organisations now accept that their employees will bring personal IT into the workplace. Put another way, the consumerisation of IT is now just business as usual. For IT managers, compliance officers and board members, this creates a number of security issues – not just day-to-day, but on a long-term basis. The majority of organisations now accept that their employees will bring personal IT into the workplace. For IT managers, compliance officers and board members, this creates a number of security issues. It is vital to strike a balance between giving access and retaining control of company networks and data. Each organisation has a different balance point, and establishing that is a complex, but perfectly possible, task, argues Dr David Bailey of BAE Systems Applied Intelligence.