I never really thought about it but those are all great reasons to just have a separate device for work. I don’t have anything like this on my phone, but I do have the outlook app so I can read my work email from my phone. I don’t think this is much of a problem as I hardly ever get any email.
I thought there were various efforts out there to improve this? For a while, I was using Touchdown on Android, which lets you access protected Exchange email, calendar, contacts, etc and only lets the admin functions see and act on its own data. And there was supposed to be some kind of Android At Work thing coming out that does something like that at the OS level too? I wonder whatever happened to that one, haven’t heard of it in a while.
I’m more familiar with this on iOS than Android because I was researching ways to provision protected wifi networks for end users. These were the only way we could find to add usefully secure credentials but the ux and UI suck. And there’s basically no way for the end user to know what you’re asking to do to their device :-(
We just rolled out MDM at work, and I just removed all work data from my personal phone.
One of the reasons everyone in my company gets a company phone.
Other reasons include having a separate phone number that they can give out to clients and switch off when they are at home.
Finally, the list of thing where that could happen to your orgs promises misses the one where a government agency forces your org to hand those over.
I never really thought about it but those are all great reasons to just have a separate device for work. I don’t have anything like this on my phone, but I do have the outlook app so I can read my work email from my phone. I don’t think this is much of a problem as I hardly ever get any email.
This is exactly why I carry two phones.
Which also sucks… I hate carrying two phones… for awhile I had to carry three.
I thought there were various efforts out there to improve this? For a while, I was using Touchdown on Android, which lets you access protected Exchange email, calendar, contacts, etc and only lets the admin functions see and act on its own data. And there was supposed to be some kind of Android At Work thing coming out that does something like that at the OS level too? I wonder whatever happened to that one, haven’t heard of it in a while.
I’m more familiar with this on iOS than Android because I was researching ways to provision protected wifi networks for end users. These were the only way we could find to add usefully secure credentials but the ux and UI suck. And there’s basically no way for the end user to know what you’re asking to do to their device :-(
Hear hear.