Does your organization welcome employees to bring their own devices to work? Or are most devices corporate-issued?
Curious to hear from the LinkedInners out there how BYOD (bring-your-own-device) is being approached at your place of business.
The statistics from this infographic (http://bit.ly/infogrfcBYOD) show that 26% of employers do not allow personal-owned devices, 24% allow them but don't manage them, 10% manage them with a third-party MDM solution, and 40% are managing them through ActiveSync or Notes. Which category do you fall under? Wanted to see if your answers differ...
I suggest looking at the rest of the infographic to spur more discussion on the topic of BYOD.
Answers (3)
I'm luck in that my company provides all employees with a cell phone, laptop, and tablet - we don't have any policies that forbid employees from bringing their own devices onto the network.
Simple anti-intrusion measures are taken with all Wi-Fi access points to ensure that we don't bring in bad stuff with us.
Darren M.
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Since the majority of our team is deployed on client projoects where the computer equipment is provided; this really applies to mobile phones for us. While we offer selected roles a basic (non-smart-phone) company mobile if desired, but we really don't want to be in the phone equipment business (managing the hardware inventory, deployment, refresh, etc) required to do this internally.
We prefer our team members to utilize their own current devices for convenience and reimburse cost to a set amount monthly. We require that the device use a locking mechanism at all times (screen lock, etc.) and in setting up connecting with email, etc. for smart-phones, our internal solution provides a check against validity of security features being enabled on the phone in order to complete connection with our servers.
Most of big companies in Japan prohibit employees from using their own devices (PC and mobile phone) for work. It's considered too risky to use personal devices for business (with more risk for information leakage, open to viruses etc) and is assessed by ISO/security audit. For small sized companies (employee less than 50 or so), IT may still not be considered as important factor in business, and PC is less managed by managers.
