As sales of laptops fall and those of tablets increase, employers ignore their employees desire to use their own devices at their peril! Workers want the flexibility that mobile devices bring, and employers have found that employees can circumvent restrictions which the employer may have on general internet or social media access at work by using their own devices. But how secure are they? Why do employees want to use their own devices? How are the operating systems designed? Who controls the 'Android' and other operating systems, why and how? What of Samsung's new 'Tizen' operating system? How secure are these operating systems and therefore the devices which rely upon them? What security (if any) can be applied to those devices? What is 'sandboxing', and does it work? And what of the 'apps' that people download onto their devices: are they all that they seem to be? Can you trust them? How do these issues fare in the context of the existing and proposed new data protection legislation? The speaker answers these and related questions, as well as presenting a discussion what (if any) legal controls exist over the use of 'own devices'. He also points the way to both existing and future solutions.
