If an employee walked into work one day clutching his shiny new iPhone, iPad, Android or other mobile smartphone or tablet, wanting to use it for official corporate business, would you say yes? Plenty of IT managers are hearing that question these days, aware that it gives rise to security and management concerns. Should the employee-owned smartphone or tablet be managed or secured exactly as a corporate-issued mobile device might be? Can the employee and business data be separated somehow? Or should the whole "bring your own device" (BYOD) phenomenon be rejected as too much of a security risk and management ordeal? Former White House cybersecurity adviser Richard Clarke, now partner at the firm Good Harbor Consulting, says employee-owned devices used for work may well "represent the newest and largest vulnerability in corporate America now."
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