US Secret Service personnel are putting the lives of America’s VIPs at risk by refusing to use government-issued phones — but they might not be up to the job in the first place
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If the Secret Service can’t enforce use of hardened devices, your own mobile security policies are almost certainly being bypassed in practice. Treat BYOD and shadow phones as a given—design controls, logging, and incident response around that reality instead of assuming compliance.
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