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An Employer’s Guide to Securing Data in the Mobile Device Age

April 30, 2014 by Marc Voses

Do you remember when Palm introduced its revolutionary products back in 1997?

Executive Summary

Property/casualty insurers, like other employers, are allowing employees to use mobile devices—both employer- and employee-owned devices—to get their work done. But the law concerning an employer's right to monitor and access information on the devices remains unsettled, explains Marc Voses of Nelson Brown & Co., also providing a list of best practices outlined by a federal government agency.

Life then was simpler when it came to protecting corporate information on mobile devices, such as the PalmPilots and other PDAs (personal digital assistants). While the devices were portable, the volume and nature of the corporate data employees could go “mobile” with pales in comparison to today’s devices.Executive SummaryProperty/casualty insurers, like other employers, are allowing employees to use mobile devices—both employer- and employee-owned devices—to get their work done. But the law concerning an employer’s right to monitor and access information on the devices remains unsettled, explains Marc Voses of Nelson Brown & Co., also providing a list of best practices outlined by a federal government agency.