• Context & Risks of BYOD:

  • The Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) model cuts hardware costs for employers and offers convenience for employees, but creates significant security vulnerabilities and blurred boundaries between personal life and work.
  • Allowing access to corporate assets from personally owned endpoints inherently challenges access control and data security.

• The Stryker Cyberattack Case Study:

  • US medical giant Stryker suffered a major cyberattack in mid-March claimed by the pro-Iranian threat group Handala.
  • Attackers claimed to have wiped 200,000 devices and servers and exfiltrated 50 TB of sensitive corporate data.
  • Reporting indicated attackers gained access to Stryker's central Microsoft Intune administration console, executing mass remote wipes across endpoints—allegedly affecting not only corporate machines but also personal BYOD devices.

• MDM vs. MAM Capabilities:

  • MDM (Mobile Device Management): Grants high-level, root-style control over the entire operating system, enabling full remote factory resets, silent application deployment, and device configuration.
  • MAM (Mobile Application Management): Scopes management strictly to corporate applications and data (e.g., Teams, Outlook), enabling selective wipes of enterprise data without compromising personal photos, files, or applications.
  • Mateusz Chrobok warns that full MDM enrollment should never be agreed to or implemented on personal BYOD devices.

• Consequences of Centralized Endpoint Management Compromise:

  • Even if an employer pledges never to abuse deep MDM access, a compromised administrative account leaves personal devices vulnerable to malicious or erroneous wipe commands and malware distribution.
  • High-privilege management tools require strict multi-factor authentication, least-privilege principles, and segregated administrative roles.

• Recommendations & Best Practices:

  • Device Separation: The safest approach is strictly separating work and personal hardware; avoid using personal phones for business communications if full MDM is mandated.
  • Network Isolation: When working remotely or from home, isolate corporate devices on a dedicated VLAN/subnet to prevent potential corporate breaches from pivoting to home networks.
  • Incident Transparency: Stryker’s proactive incident communication (daily public status updates) serves as a benchmark model for corporate crisis management.

Intéressant de penser à l'aménagement physique lors d'une pandémie qui pousse les apprenants hors des lieux physiques conçus pour l'apprentissage et vers un aménagement physique de l'espace familial.

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Yes! The overall goal is to empower students to have agency over their digital fluency, not just enable them to use this or that software or technique.

Yes! For example: practice in using spreadsheets in general, rather than just what to click on in a single product like MS Excel.

And maybe librarians, who along with IDs are well-placed to work across curricula and embed digital literacies practices strategically?

Yay! I love the plural form in all cases. There is always more than one "literacy".

Like with writing, digital literacies/skills/fluency should be incorporated across the curriculum.

Yes! If we expect students to do something, we should devote learning time to helping them learn how/advance their knowledge.

Another definition of digital literacy, recast as digital fluency.

A definition of digital literacy.

A key point: a lot of people might have technology, but that doesn't mean they have built up knowledge and skills about how it works or how to do things with it.

Laptops in the classroom. Student perspective!

Hypothesis needs a robust mobile strategy to accommodate these users.

Customisation: the “personal” era. What with “personal learning networks” and everything “self-”. Does sound like a major trend. What’s possibly most interesting, though, is the framing. To some of us, the term “individualism” may carry some negative connotations. It could be fairly neutral, in a context like this one, or deemed positive (prefixed with “rugged”), but it’s an interesting choice, here.