Securing corporate data in mobile devices in a COPE environment

Abstract

Bring Your Own Devices (BYOD) paved the way for allowing employees to use their own mobile devices for corporate work. But it increases the risk of leaking sensitive corporate information from employee's devices to outside. As a solution for this problem the Corporate Owned Personally Enabled (COPE) concept or idea introduced. In this concept, company owned devices can be used for both corporate and personal use of the employees. But in COPE stopping leakage of corporate data to outside as well as securing the privacy of the user is challenging. The Enterprise Secure Center (ESC) platform discussed here will consider about separation of corporate data from personal data to secure both organization information and personal information from being compromised. The ESC have an application mechanism which will enable COPE environment to secure organization data while allowing employees to use corporate devices for their personal use. ESC platform also provides answers to user's privacy issues and will be an initial step to implement BYOD within an organization as COPE is a part.