Arguably, there are still data on these devices, such as local copies of corporate email that might contain sensitive information. However, does the risk of unauthorized access to the average user’s email account and the loss of a $300 piece of hardware necessitate specialized technologies and a cadre of staff to implement and monitor them? Most security people would argue that there’s a far greater risk of an employee giving away passwords to an authoritative voice on the other end of a phone than a carefully orchestrated theft of a mobile device.
The VDI crew is hoping that containerized data access gets noticed as the cheaper way balm to the data paranoid.
Maybe MDM is sort of silly