Legal Issues within Corporate 'Bring Your Own Device' Programs

As our work becomes less and less dependent on a physical brick and mortar corporate office tethered to an Ethernet cable, the tools with which we access our workspace and corporate data are also evolving rapidly. Devices that workers use at home are now being demanded as workspace tools as well due to the convenience and rapid ascension of products such as iPads, iPhones, and Android devices. While technology has provided for this paradigm shift, it has also brought to the forefront a host of legal issues. Corporate data is now available on very personal devices. Considerations such as maintaining and storing corporate data, secure destruction of that data, as well as breach notification and legal hold need guidelines on how to proceed. How do you account for an evolving legal environment that assumes export of your data (corporate AND customer) outside the corporate network borders and protection? We will examine potential ways in which a company can provide what workers demand in 'Bring Your Own Device' programs (BYOD) to increase productivity, as well as mitigating the inherent legal risks that these programs introduce.