• Don't Let Mobile Phone Number Ownership Place Your
  BYOD Program on Hold
• Richard Doheny
• 11 November 2014
• Employee-owned phone numbers used for business purposes as part of a BYOD program carry the risk of negative financial and operational business impacts. Mobile operations and BYOD project leaders can use these best practices to evaluate the risk and develop an appropriate mitigation strategy.
  
  Key Challenges
  
  
  • Allowing external-facing employees to use their own personal mobile numbers to engage with customers or partners places those contacts at risk of loss or dissatisfaction when workers leave or their employment is terminated.
  • Many employees engaging in bring your own device (BYOD) programs value a separation of personal and work environments, and may not be comfortable using or resigning their personal mobile numbers as a condition for enrollment.
  • Manual work-arounds requiring employees to block or mask outbound mobile numbers are rarely followed by employees.
  • Even with a solution in place to offer a secondary number, some employees may favor using their personal numbers for work-related use because they are familiar to them and, in some instances, to their clients.
  
  Recommendations
  
  
  • Assign a second, enterprise-owned number to all personally owned devices that are involved in customer-facing interactions, or where faced with regulatory requirements for logging and archiving communications.
  • Avoid manual work-arounds that require extra steps to block or mask caller ID for outbound calls.
  • Investigate vendor solutions via PBX vendors and telephony carriers that implement dual-number, single-SIM solutions.
  • Leverage training and written policies to guide employees to use only the approved applications and numbers for enterprise voice and SMS communications on their mobile devices.

The Movius Solution

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• While both global enterprises and employees are both rapidly embracing BYOD, organizations are now faced with having to create "bring your own device" (BYOD) policies. Many organizations have already implemented BYOD policies, however it has become clear that these policies require a fine balance between securing corporate information accessed on the device; keeping employee information and calls private; and developing guidelines for how charges for the mobile device (such as monthly data) are separated and reimbursed to the employee through expense reports.
  
  How do organizations accept BYOD within their enterprise while balancing security, employee privacy and mobile expenses?

• How Multiple Identity Solutions Are Tackling BYOD Concerns
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