Should users be left to their own devices?

Stuart Sumner
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A growing number of firms are allowing staff to use their own personal devices to do work. So what is driving the trend, and are there any potential pitfalls?

Organisations are increasingly allowing employees to use personal devices for business purposes. This so-called consumerisation of corporate IT is attractive to the business for several reasons, no...

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