Comment vendor agnostic environments... (Score 1) 523
I'm the security director for a mid sized global company. I'm the guy behind locking down the desktops. I won't reiterate the eloquent arguments my colleagues made about the tradeoffs between security / useability and costs.
I will say that we are in process of virtualizing our business applications such that all the users will need is web browser to do the work (a la mainframes). Our tests are showing that they are a) very receptive to using whatever they want for their systems and b) our costs will be lower. The idea is the keys to our kingdom (our IP, data, code etc) are locked up pretty tightly, and the user side of the network is more open. It's an approach that seems to be doing well.
Our users are using win, mac, linux (me) and various flavours of tablets. For the apps we have virtualized, it's going well.
It is a good way to balance control and freedom.