Security managers remain skeptical of BYOD

摘要

Companies are grappling with the question of whether and how to let employees use their own smartphones and tablets at work even as a huge push is being made to set up internal "app stores" of approved and custom-built corporate mobile apps. "We identified our needs, and we're planning on custom mobile apps," says Lincoln Cannon, director of sales and marketing technology at Merit Medical Systems, a maker of medical equipment in Utah. The company has few reservations about allowing employees to use Apple iPads, including their own, to present information to business customers and allow access to cloud-based services, such as Google Docs, where product-related documents and videos are placed. While a few apps from the Apple App Store have worked out, the business has determined that to really gain the functionality it wants on the iPad to synchronize with its salesforce systems, it needs to design some apps on its own.