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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Roland Perry
> Sent: 25 October 2013 10:01
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> Subject: Re: BYOD policy
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> In message <61E52F3A5532BE43B0211254F13883AE98097B25@EXC001>, at
> 08:29:55 on Fri, 25 Oct 2013, Andrew Cormack <[log in to unmask]>
> writes
> >> Unless of course such phones have email disabled altogether, under a
> >>policy of "If we stop you doing anything at all, we'll probably stop
> >>you doing something insecure".
> >
> >That's a great way to create uncontrolled shadow IT :(
>
> I agree, and recently have been discussing this very thing with a chap
> whose work Blackberry is so locked down that he has to BYOD for any
> non-core work activities like looking up travel times when en-route
> from
> one client to another.
Doh, so now the personal device (and probably a mapping site somewhere) has a copy of his client list, which the employer presumably thinks is company confidential :(
It can be very interesting looking at the history on GPS sets in hire cars...
Andrew
> Of course, that's just an instance of your second bullet below, as long
> as they are "managed" to allow that kind of app (which is by no means
> clear all smartphone platforms have a useful scheme for):
>
> >As far as I can see organisations have three policy choices:
> >*) give people jobs they can do from the office, during office hours
> >*) issue a full set of managed mobile devices to those who are
> expected
> to work outside those places/times
> >*) develop a BYOD policy
> --
> Roland Perry
>
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