BYOD
WORKPLACE: The Pros & Cons of BYOD. For a modern-day workplace, a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policy is becoming commonplace. Since many organizations are now assigning corporate devices, such as company-issued smartphones and tablets, in order to help employees keep up with work and email, it’s natural that some people may want to use their own device instead. Given that some levels of work can be readily accessed through any device, it should be an easy step – except that there are security concerns. Once your employees are granted access to company servers on their personal devices, sensitive information is at an even greater risk of being leaked – especially if employees are lax on keeping their device’s security measures up to date. Read more
[TECH.CO]
ENTERPRISE: Enterprise Mobile Security Tools May Not Protect BYOD. For employees, bring-your-own-device workplace policies can increase efficiency and improve remote work capabilities. For the organization, BYOD can reduce equipment costs, but it can also open the enterprise up to all sorts of new exploits and breaches. Find out more
[GCN.COM]
BEST PRACTICES: For Managing the Security of BYOD Smartphones and Tablets. The practice of employees using personal phones and tablets at work is already widespread, with the number of such devices forecast to hit one billion by 2018. The challenge posed to enterprises by the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend is that it forces them to keep corporate data safe on a plethora of different mobile computers that are not directly under IT’s control. Worse, each device can potentially be running a different OS, with different apps installed and different vulnerabilities. How should organisations approach the security of these devices in a way that doesn’t interfere with employees’ ability to work? Read more
[ZDNET.COM]
POLICY: Malware and ‘Connection Hijacking’ Remain Biggest BYOD Risks. A new report from data centre provider CyrusOne outlines malware, device theft and phishing as among the key risks for organisations looking to implement a bring your own device (BYOD) policy. Find out more
[APPSTECHNEWS.COM]
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