BlackBerry CIO on Mobile Security, BYOD and the Modern CIO Role

11.10.2012

So RIM employees cannot bring in their personal devices and ask RIM to support them?

Not a personal device, no.

That goes for BlackBerrys, too? Employees can't bring in personal BlackBerrys?

The only thing we've opened the door a little bit for is our PlayBook [tablet]. If an employee brings in a PlayBook, we'll enable on that PlayBook. But that's more of a pilot for us.

"[RIM employees] don't need to bring somebody else's personal device to work. I want the full security solution. Being head of security for the business, I understand where the vulnerabilities are within the other platforms. It's just not a risk I'm willing to take yet."