Enterprise mobility and BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)

Comp Tia’s study proves that mobility is very much a part of business today.
This is as true for large groups with several subsidiaries, to which it may be necessary to travel, as it is for start-ups located in co-working premises, business incubators or even teleworking facilities.
This raises the question of professional equipment.
What about the telephone or computer to be used?

Mobility has of course changed the way employees use their devices.
New norms involving authorizations, tolerances or even prohibitions have also emerged, and are now overturning the way things used to work.
For example, the most common practice today is to connect your private cell phone to your work e-mail account.
This use is officially accepted by 67%, but tolerated by 23% without any official documentation.
However, it is prohibited in 6% of cases in official company documentation, and unofficially refused in 3% of cases.

Trust between employer and employee plays a major role in the deployment of Bring Your Own Device.
However, this trust sometimes fails to cross the hurdle of regulations governing the security of business data.
For example, companies may fear :

• Misuse or abuse of business data
• The loss or hacking of a private computer could have repercussions on the company’s entire IT system, or on the confidentiality of certain projects, and represents a major risk.
• Or even simply that the use of a laptop, for example, leads to a dispersion or loss of productivity on the part of the employee due to the presence of personal documents or applications.
  This would have the effect of blurring the “private/professional” boundary.

To overcome the obstacles and potential fears of managers, some companies have set up formal training courses on acceptable and unacceptable practices.
This is a possible solution to this kind of drift. Some tools are also being used to open the door to BYOD practices, such as Invoxia, which has developed a phone that lets you physically connect a smartphone to a desk phone, enabling you to share contacts and benefit from the cell phone experience within the workplace.
If you would like more information on this subject, please contact us. We are Invoxia partners.