almost half of all companies with BYOD had security breaches as a direct result of employee devices accessing the corporate network.

@Christine, thanks for the post. Its pretty scary to know that half of all the companies with BYOD had security breaches. I think this a very big percentage and this will deter new companies from adopting BYOD.

Pshaw. Phone beltclips are the pocket protectors of the 21st Century. 

Why go to the trouble of carrying two phones? Instead, an employe can just make sure he has a backup of the phone that he -- rather than IT -- controls. 

@Duke, yes! Wear the corporate BlackBerry on a belt clicp! 

Here's an idea: why risk that shiny, new smartphone on the corporate death network?  Set up the old, still-working one you "replaced" on a $10 shared family line, and use that for corporate data.  It's less likely to break your heart if they smack the old phone than if they nuke the new.  Other than that, it's daily backups of contacts and calendars for you, bucko.  Seriously, it's not too bad if you've lost the phone and it gets wiped (take that, data thieves!), but when some bonehead in IT wipes BSmith when they were supposed to wipe DSmith (and yes, I've seen it done, more than once), there are some bent noses that require a lot of re-jointing.  Add in the crippling of storage, phone cameras, and even internal memory, and it's a wonder than anybody would allow their shiny new toy within miles of corporate IT.  I'll take that Crackberry, thanks, and hang it around my neck on a lanyard so it's obvious it's the company's and not mine.  Let them screw up their own equipment for a change.

That's true, Mitch.  And maybe that's where this BYOD attention will send us... eventually.

But, it seems, not today.

robjvargas - Some kind of sandboxing would wipe business data while leaving personal data alone. 

I'm not understanding why BYOD has been such a harsh rollout. I mean can you not set up a share drive for each user and limit access to that depot along with permissions only set for certain files and email? create apps for each device and only certain devices? 

@robjvargas, I'd call the police to report the phone stolen so that I could at least have a police report for the record. I wouldn't expect them to get the phone back at all. Cynical of me, but from experience, I know that once's something's stolen from you, it's easier to just get the police report, then write it off.