Which Deployment Model Is It?

About this interactive

Three questions decide a deployment model. Who buys the device? If the employee does, it is BYOD, bring your own device: the cheapest for the company and the least under its control. If the company buys it, who picks the model? When staff choose from a list of approved models, it is CYOD, choose your own device. Choice raises satisfaction and cuts shadow IT, but adds models to support. If the company buys and assigns the model, may staff use it personally? Yes makes it COPE, corporate-owned, personally enabled: one device instead of two, with more room for abuse. No makes it corporate-owned, business only, with the most control: data loss prevention, managed patches, one model to support. A company-bought device that staff choose is CYOD whether or not personal use is allowed, so the cards that offer a choice belong there.

What you'll learn

Identify the mobile deployment model a company uses (corporate-owned, COPE, CYOD or BYOD) from who buys the device, who picks the model and whether personal use is allowed
Relate each deployment model to its security trade-off: company ownership gives control, while personal ownership gives the least

Aligned to

CompTIA Security+

4.1 Given a scenario, apply common security techniques to computing resources.

Key terms

Corporate-Owned: A mobile device deployment model in which the organization purchases and owns all devices, retaining full control over security configurations, updates, and permitted uses.
Corporate Owned, Personally Enabled: A policy in which the organization buys, issues and manages each phone or laptop while letting staff use it for private calls, apps and photos too, trading a little control for flexibility.
Choose Your Own Device: A policy in which employees pick their phone or laptop from a list the organization has approved, and the organization buys it, enrolls it and manages it under its security policies.
Bring Your Own Device: A policy that lets employees use the phones, tablets and laptops they bought themselves to reach company systems and data, which makes separating work data from personal data, managing the hardware and enforcing policy harder.
Mobile Device Management: Software an organization uses to enroll, configure, monitor and enforce security policy on staff phones and tablets from one central console, including wiping one that is lost or compromised.

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