Corporate Devices
Corporate-liable devices are those a company pays for and essentially owns and fully controls. User-liable devices are typically smartphones (and now tablets as well) that are paid for and owned by individuals and brought into the workplace and used for both personal and corporate purposes. As the the iPhone and Android devices became enormously popular, the influx of user-liable devices has escalated at a rapid pace.
Investing in the right MDM is key.
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) presents several issues:
- Business Privacy
- Employee Overtime Claims
- Termination Claims
- Increase Financial Resources
Mobile security isn’t only about ensuring that corporate data and email is better secured. It is also critical to ensuring that outsiders – hackers, corporate spies (yes, they do exist), and other parties that may have an interest in finding their way into a corporate network – cannot get to the corporate networks. MDM works to help keep corporate data from “leaking out” of the enterprise, and to help ensure that outsiders cannot get into the enterprise. Depending on the type of mobile device and its use, different mobile security and mobile management technologies fit the bill.