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Companies at the other end of the spectrum allow (and even encourage) the

use of personal devices to save corporate IT dollars and keep employees

happy.

Most organizations fall in the middle of the spectrum and have a mixed

environment with both corporate-owned and employee-owned mobile

devices. Some organizations institute a cost-sharing program, subsidizing an

employee’s personally owned device with a monthly phone stipend or

discount agreement with mobile device and telecommunications vendors.

Regardless of how comfortable an organization is with BYOD, there are

important questions to answer.

One question is how much control the corporation has versus the

individual. If corporate data is processed or stored on the device, the

organization should have some degree of control over it. On the other hand, if

the device also belongs to the employee, then the employee should have some

control. Another question is who pays for the device and its use. If the

organization allows the user to use her own device for company work, does

the organization help pay for the monthly bill or compensate the user for its

use? Again, this issue is best solved via formal policy and procedures. Yet

another important question in a BYOD environment is how to handle

employee privacy. If policy allows the organization some degree of control

over the device, what degree of privacy does the user maintain on her own

device? Can the organization see private data, or have the ability to remotely

access a user’s personal device and control its use?

The proliferation of mobile devices in the workplace has led to the

development of mobile device management (MDM) policies that often

combine a specialized app on the devices and specialized infrastructure to

deal with those devices. These policies also inform corporate versus end-user

device configuration options; in other words, who should make configuration

decisions on things such as e-mail, wireless access, and so forth. As you

might imagine, MDM policies are a big deal at the big organization level (the

enterprise) because of the scale and complexity of the issues. A CompTIA

A+ technician comes in to facilitate the installation of the MDM app, for

example, or to help fix key infrastructure problems (like an overloaded WAP

because all 25 members of a department bought iWatches at the same time).

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