10 BYOD Concerns for CIOs


#7 Data Ownership:

Another area of concern for CIOs should be data ownership. Companies must ensure the security of the devices, along with its data. It’s a good strategy for CIO’s to bring out extensive policies that assure the separation between corporate data and personal data. It is not good policy to store corporate data with pictures of family reunions. For the protection of intellectual property and also for purposes of security, governance, and data stewardship, corporate data residing on mobile devices should be safeguarded — and there should be ways to retrieve it.

#8 Ruggedized devices:

BYOD policy doesn’t only hold for IT companies, but also covers various industries such as manufacturing, construction etc. System administrators must make sure that all the devices are designed to meet the environmental requirements. Think of an employee who works out in the warehouse yard and drops an iPhone on the pavement where it shatters or someone goes into a refrigerated storage area and tries to use a consumer-grade device to monitor temperatures and send data back into a centralized warehouse system. In all these cases, the devices must either be upgraded or designed to support the workplace and concerned systems.

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