Collision Path: Balancing Employee Privacy with Mobile Security
Posted by: Mariesa Ramos
October 26 2011
Now that the majority of enterprises have or soon plan to dip their toe in the water with a "bring your own device", or BYOD, program, questions arise more often about the appropriate level of corporate governance and policy setting on personally-owned devices. Questions around monitoring mobile user behavior and taking actions on devices upon employee departure bring up some pretty important privacy issues (and those issues are different around the world). Beyond generally asking "What's fair?" and balancing that with "What kind of security do I need?" for mobile devices and users, there's also the question of "What's legal?" and "What kind of hot water can my organization get into?"
Here we are, nearing the end of our blog post having raised a lot of questions but not having provided any answers...
Well, join us next week on Thursday, Nov. 3, for a look at this very issue in a webinar we're hosting: "Collision Path: Balancing Employee Privacy with Mobile Security", with legal expert Orin Kerr. Orin is a Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School and focuses among other things on computer crime law and computer privacy. His scholarly works have been cited by all of the regional U.S. Courts of Appeals, he authored a law school casebook on computer crime law, and is frequently interviewed by major media outlets such as The New York Times and National Public Radio. In the webinar we'll have Orin talk about the intersection of privacy rights and mobile security and what it means for enterprises, what's going on in the legal landscape around BYOD today, and tackle some actual scenarios with practical advice for going mobile while protecting privacy.
