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Interview question · Mobile Application Security

How do MDM, work profiles and app protection policies secure company data on phones, and what can the company see on a personal phone?

Employees will read company email on their own phones either way. The scored answer protects the data without owning the device, and is honest about what IT can and cannot see.

mediumNewPreparation tags: Microsoft, Google, AppleUpdated Nov 2026

Employees will read company email on their own phones either way. The scored answer protects the data without owning the device, and is honest about what IT can and cannot see.

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  1. 01 State the assumptions your answer depends on.
  2. 02 Explain the mechanism and choose a control.
  3. 03 Name a condition that would change your decision.

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A company lets staff read email on personal phones with only a username, password and MFA. A salesperson's phone is stolen unlocked, and later an employee forwards customer files from the mail app to a personal cloud storage app.

  1. What could have limited the stolen-phone exposure?
  2. What stops the forwarding to personal storage?
  3. How do you make the new controls stick?
  4. How do you summarise securing data on phones?

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