Saving money while boosting employee morale was the impetus behind allowing employees of Baxter International to bring their own phones and tablets to the office and plug them into the corporate network. But before a wide-scale bring-your-own-technology (BYOT) program could be adopted, legal raised some concerns. Baxter CIO Paul Martin says in-house attorneys specifically wanted to know whether, in the event of e-discovery, the $13 billion healthcare company could still access information held on a privately owned device. And if information did need to be obtained, could IT access it in a way that protected the company from liability. At the time, there was no formal policy covering such events.
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