December 17, 2015 By Rob Patey < 1 min read

A mobility menace has descended upon the galaxy. Long, long ago — in technology terms, anyway — the mobile workforce awakened to a new age of on-the-go productivity. However, employees are easily seduced by everything from the dark side of open cloud sharing to the drag-and-drop ease of shuttling confidential company information into apps outside of IT’s approved array.

So sit back, but don’t relax too much as you witness this harrowing trilogy from a galaxy far, far away. It’s about an empire that had a star-sized project literally blow up from mobile malpractice.

Space Skirmish: The Mobility Menace Begins

What happens when empires go rogue with content sharing and team collaboration on mobile devices? Big plans will go boom.

https://youtu.be/gbprWn-yTq0

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The Mobility Menace Episode II: Mobile Sharing Bugaboo

See how the horrific ventilated death moon plans made their way into the hands of the rebels at a little cantina where everybody knows your name (unless you’re a dirty droid).

https://youtu.be/XapoErm60Z0

The Mobility Menace Episode III: Mobile Crossfire

It’s time to pay the piper (or in this case, the snarkiest interviewer in 12 parsecs) for the biggest project blow-up the galaxy has ever seen. Understand mobile malpractices and best practices with some familiar friends from long ago.

https://youtu.be/hQkfydQ5z30

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