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Kestrel Logistics equips its drivers with company-issued tablets and also allows office staff to use their own smartphones to access the corporate email and scheduling system. Which term best describes the arrangement for the office staff, and what is its main control implication?

The arrangement is bring your own device (BYOD). Staff use personally owned phones for corporate systems, so the company must impose policies and security controls such as encryption, remote wipe and acceptable use, because it does not own or fully control the hardware.

  1. ABring your own device (BYOD); the company must set policies and security controls over devices it does not ownCorrect
  2. BInfrastructure as a service; the company must buy its own servers to host the devices
  3. CInternet of Things; the company must replace the phones with sensors
  4. DShadow IT; the company can ignore security because use is authorised

Explanation

Staff using personally owned devices for work is BYOD. Because the company does not own the hardware, it needs policies such as device registration, encryption, remote wipe and acceptable-use rules. Shadow IT refers to unapproved systems, which does not fit an authorised arrangement.

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