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From a security perspective the best option (which we cannot offer today) is whole disk encryption for the mobile device. It is the desire that by implementing these minimum barriers we are able to better protect university and personal data that may be accessible from an unlocked mobile device by encouraging people who steal or find devices to simply factory reset them which is the desired behavior for a device that has been lost.
Why Opt-In?
Tufts is a BYOD environment. It is our hope by piloting the Secure Pilot we will be able to provide those legally responsible for Tufts data a way to determine if a secure policy is right to be enforced at a universal level if connecting a device to the Tufts environment.
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