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BRINKMAN
THE NEWS SOURCE FOR
UC•UCAAS•CLOUD AND COLLABORATION
by Ben Brinkman, VP of Sales
at c2mtech (www.c2mtech.
com)
I
n Part 1 from November, we discussed the
movement towards mobility in the workplace
and how wireless IP phones and BYOD are two
options. We also discussed two considerations
on whether a workplace needs to go mobile:
employees and environment.

Wireless IP Phones Are Mobile
Workstations
Although manufacturers claim their BYOD
smartphone apps deliver the full features of an
IP phone via so ware, there’s a hardware issue.
Smartphone sizes have changed drastically since
rst introduced, unfortunately the trend isn’t for
a more ergonomic design.
Smartphones are getting thinner and smaller
on one end and larger on another. Few of us
rarely use smartphones for voice calls, though
ironic, spending much more time sending
data communications (text, email, photos) and

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Balancing

Security and

Privacy in BYOD

ROYAL

by K Royal, Vice President, Assistant General Counsel,
CellTrust Corporation (www.
celltrust.com)
M
ore than half of North American and
European companies are developing
a bring-your-own-device (BYOD)
policy, according to Forrester Research. Letting
employees use their personal smartphones and
tablets for work enables small and medium
businesses and large enterprises to leverage
technologies that would be more expensive to
buy. But that, and other bene ts, come with a few
caveats due to clashes between company security
policies, laws and employee privacy perceptions.
For example, many businesses have deployed
enterprise mobility management (EMM)
platforms to better manage and remotely
erase all data on stolen or lost company-issue
smartphones and tablets. Another reason is to
comply with industry-speci c regulations such
as Dodd-Frank, which require nancial services
rms to archive text messages, emails and voice
calls. “We have seen a 100 percent increase in the
volume of audio data recorded and analyzed by
banks,” Brandon Daniels, president of legal and
compliance consultant Clutch Group, told e

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