FIREWALLS TO SEPARATE PERSONAL FROM PROFESSIONAL

In this day of smartphones and remote-working policies, many companies are going ‘asset-light’ and allowing personal devices (cell phones, laptops, etc.) for official use. Use of self-owned cell phones to access work emails, WhatsApp for business and work, Excel or PPT files, browsing Facebook or Instagram, Googling, Gmailing, Skyping, booking Uber rides, finding Airbnb hosts and ordering app-based food deliveries are now more the norm for millennials and their successors – the Gen Z.

This is raising interesting questions around individual privacy, implementation of system controls on, and access to, employees’ self-owned devices by employers, either