Up until recently I didn’t really care about wiping my phone, because everything really lives in the cloud. But as a consultant my access to the client’s email system might not last beyond a few months, or could even last just a few weeks. If I were a full-time employee, expecting to retain that status for an indefinite (i.e., multi-year) period, that might not be such a big thing.
And, in particular, at termination of “employment”.
The usual MDM regime has one “feature” I can no longer tolerate, the ability for the organization to erase the contents of your mobile device at its discretion. For the most part that is not a problem as I already manage my phone that way, for example requiring a PIN to unlock it, and having the device set to erase itself after a number of failed PIN entries. Like most organizations, my client’s IT organization requires any device accessing its email system to submit to its Mobile Device Management (MDM) regime. I recently decided not to enable my cell phone to connect to a client’s email system.
Here is a short one, the importance of my mobile phone has reached the level where I am reluctant to take risks with it. I’ll try to get back to regular blogging, and I have a huge backlog of topics. Sorry for my absence the last few weeks, I’ve been rather busy with a move.
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