So now we’ve got Jason Snell, and Dan Moren. Both of them are MacWorld writers. No surprise that they don’t fault the device for not having an enforcement mechanism, they just lay the blame on the IT department for failure to enforce.
No, Tacticalogic, we have to pundits who know a lot more than you about the operation of UNIX and Mac that are aware it is not a device level function to enforce such policies. As one of the commenters on the CIO magazine article dismissed the "study" commented:
"Clickbait for sure!As an senior IT director at a Fortune 5 company I am deeply disappointed, for not only read the misleading headline, but that CIO would be used to essentially sell a companies' wares with a need proved by their own survey.
While Centrify talked to 1,000 users we have more than 27,000 personally owned (BYOD) iOS devices, which I welcome them to call, all managed using AirWatch which addresses all of the issues here...other than sharing passwords of course..I mean really Centrify?
Guess who is on my do not return call list! ;-)
AirWatch is an Atlanta-based provider of enterprise mobility management (EMM) software and standalone management systems for content, applications and email.
In July 2013, the company acquired Motorola Solutions's MSP (Mobility Services Platform) and extended management capabilities to ruggedized devices.
it easily supports iOS devices and provides such security management of remote devices.