Don’t Put Your Work Email on Your Personal Phone
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Don’t Put Your Work Email on Your Personal Phone
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#2> When you add a work email address to your phone, you’ll likely be asked to install something called a Mobile Device Management (MDM) profile. Chances are, you’ll blindly accept it. (What other choice do you have?)
I use the Nine mail/calendar app[1] to keep all that contained. It integrates nicely with the native Android apps but keeps all of the security and control options within Nine itself. It looks like they are also beta testing an iOS app but I have no experience with that version of it.
For example, if the mail account security settings require a screen lock code, Nine will require a code to access the app but this won't affect the actual phone's unlock screen.
Similarly if a data wipe request is sent from the server it will only affect Nine.
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#3What if you have multiple iOS devices and you MDM one of them connected to the same iCloud account, what risk exposure do I have? The same?
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#4At least if your org is on Office365 and doesn't have too restrictive policies, you can get your email over standard IMAP. There also exist some nice man-in-the-middle proxies which pretend to exchange servers that you've implemented the policies they ask for.
I've got multiple "work" (one is a volunteering role) office365 exchange accounts on my personal phone, using [https://sites.google.com/site/bikomobi/exchained](exchained). Seems to work well. I'm sure the respective IT departments would give me a stern talking to, but there is nothing in either job that is of any sensitive nature whatsoever so their blanket "ask for admin permissions on my phone" policies can get fd, frankly.
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#5And this is why I really want a phone which can run virtualized Android environments.
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#6Yes, if it's important to your company for you to be able to receive any of their communications wherever you are, they can pay for a phone plus service to give to you for that purpose. Don't let them use your personal phone for that.
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#7Don't work anything on your personal anything.
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#8At least if your org is on Office365 and doesn't have too restrictive policies, you can get your email over standard IMAP. There also exist some nice man-in-the-middle proxies which pretend to exchange servers that you've implemented the policies they ask for. I've got multiple "work" (one is a volunteering role) office365 exchange accounts on my personal phone, using [ https://sites.google.com/site/bikomobi/exchaine…
THAT'S NOT HOW ANY OF THIS WORKS!(^!%((&*!#%
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#9>When you add a work email address to your phone, you’ll likely be asked to install something called a Mobile Device Management (MDM) profile
...what? The Outlook app containerizes your email accout specifically so that you dont have to do this. Your company can remotely wipe your work account and only your work account.
Of course MDM gives access to your phone - thats its whole purpose.
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#10> When you add a work email address to your phone, you’ll likely be asked to install something called a Mobile Device Management (MDM) profile. Chances are, you’ll blindly accept it. (What other choice do you have?) I use the Nine mail/calendar app[1] to keep all that contained. It integrates nicely with the native Android apps but keeps all of the security and control options within Nine itself. It looks like they a…
Looks cool, but requires ActiveSync to be on. I think a lot of stodgy companies are locking that down and requiring the native Outlook app and its (as mentioned) stealthly MDM stuff.