Friday, my wife who is required by employer to own a Blackberry received notice of some changes to company policy. They do pay us a stipend which only pays for the BB service not the cell phone charges so it represents about 50% of our monthly bill for the BB phone. So on Friday she gets this notice that beginning next week a whole new level of security restrictions are going to apply to her phone. There are quite a few but two of them are extremely troublesome, IMO.
1. The phone will require a new security password to operate. The password will require special characters and be changed every 30 days. It will have to be 8 characters minimum of numbers letters and one special character like @
2. You will have 5 attempts to unlock your phone. After 5 failed attempts, your phone will have it's database erased and will require a new load of the OS by IT to reinstate it. Your phone will lock requiring the entry of the password every 15 minutes. How can they legally brick a person's personal phone like that? What about emergency use that will be suspended?
Later in the year we were told that the company will be supplying company phones and the stipend will end. I already have her replacement an LG env3. She'll have to carry 2 phones because they are planning an employee audit system to prevent personal use of the company phone.
I knew BB was a good push e-mail system but never knew BB allowed the IT people to push OS software changes to a persons private phone like they plan to do.
1. The phone will require a new security password to operate. The password will require special characters and be changed every 30 days. It will have to be 8 characters minimum of numbers letters and one special character like @
2. You will have 5 attempts to unlock your phone. After 5 failed attempts, your phone will have it's database erased and will require a new load of the OS by IT to reinstate it. Your phone will lock requiring the entry of the password every 15 minutes. How can they legally brick a person's personal phone like that? What about emergency use that will be suspended?
Later in the year we were told that the company will be supplying company phones and the stipend will end. I already have her replacement an LG env3. She'll have to carry 2 phones because they are planning an employee audit system to prevent personal use of the company phone.
I knew BB was a good push e-mail system but never knew BB allowed the IT people to push OS software changes to a persons private phone like they plan to do.