Current trends suggest that workers change jobs and companies several times over the course of a career, so IT needs a way to account for this flux of people and devices. IT must be able to identify, with certainty, who a user is and if a device should have access to corporate resources.

Data policies, such as encryption, password length, password complexity, and password duration, must provide corporate data security on all devices while maintaining the privacy of workers’ personal information. On both types of device, they’re likely to have a mix of apps, some for personal use and some for work.īut as the traditional boundaries between work and personal life blur the use of these devices, it’s critical that devices be managed in a way that is acceptable to the entire business. They’re likely to check both work and personal email accounts on their phone, and may use their phone camera to take photos of whiteboard sessions to help them remember what a work group collaborated on during a meeting.

For example, they might bring a personal tablet to a business meeting and expect to access files on a team’s Microsoft SharePoint site, or they might present a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation over Microsoft Skype for Business.

Moreover, users now typically have several identities, meaning that they use their devices in both work-related and non-work-related contexts.

In a bring your own device (BYOD) work environment, users expect to be able to work from any location at any time, on the device of their choice.

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