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CTIA 2013: Employees using personal devices on work data, regardless of company policy


LAS VEGAS – Companies may have well established policies of what their employees may or may not do with their own smartphones, but that doesn’t mean their workers always obey. A survey released today by CTIA-The Wireless Association found that what employees do, and what IT professionals think they are doing, are very different. While only 30% of consumers were very or somewhat familiar with BYOD, 47% had never heard of it. Yet the numbers for IT professionals were more modest than expected with 55% who were very or somewhat familiar, while 26% admitted they had never heard of it....