Organizations today must consider being proactive regarding mobile device management policies. This blog from Cimplifi discusses how to do it!

In their post titled Going Mobile: Device Management Policies and Mobile Device Management (MDM) Solutions (available here), Cimplifi discusses how many believe that workplace mobile device policies boil down to just two options: company-issued or personally owned devices. But there are actually four options that range from organizational control to total employee freedom and flexibility:

• Company Owned, Business Only (COBO): Organization provides the device, and their policy only permits its use for business purposes.
• Company Owned, Personally Enabled (COPE): Organization provides the device and enforces security on it, giving employees and contractors no say in the device choice. But employees can use the device for personal use as well.
• Choose Your Own Device (CYOD): Employees and contractors can choose among devices approved by the organization, for which IT will have the rights and access to enforce certain security policies on the device.
• Bring Your Own Device (BYOD): As the term implies, employees and contractors have the freedom to choose their own device and the level of control by the organization is often minimal at best.

What percentage of organizations have a BYOD policy and why? And what are the benefits of mobile device management (MDM), in general and for eDiscovery? Find out here, it’s only one click! You’ll have to be mobile to read it! 🙂

So, what do you think? Does your organization have a mobile device management (MDM) policy? Please share any comments you might have or if you’d like to know more about a particular topic.

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