When assiduous business administrators initiated an urge for access to
corporate resources and vital commercial information on the go through their
devices, many organizations took up the challenge and started debating on the
concept of implementation of the BYOD (Bring Your Own Device). The BYOD
also called BYOT (Bring Your Own Technology) and BYOP (Bring Your Own
Phone) is the policy of allowing the workforce to bring and use their
personally possessed devices to the workplace to gain an access to organizational
insights, corporate information and applications on the go.
Letting employees to access authorized corporate information from any
place and at any time on their personal devices shows up to be a beneficial
implementation as it provides better elasticity to official procedures and
increased transparency to business insights and commercial information at any
point of time. BUT, has anyone ever thought of the security issues it rears as
the staff demands access to delicate corporate information on their indiscreet
and unsecured devices? This way or the other, if the IT department of an
organization shifts the security of any personally owned device higher, then
the organization ultimately gets an access to all the personal information of
the employee stored in the device. And this feature was never affordable at the
employee’s end!
Now there stood another
challenge of managing security in the concept of implementing BYOD. But it was
soon eradicated with the release of a furnished concept of BYOD 2.0. The
newly formulated BYOD combines mobile management functionality and limited
access feature, that different level of workforce will have dissimilar level of
access to limited and authorized information. In BYOD 2.0 (Bring
Your Own Device 2.0), Device Level VPNs
(Virtual Private Networks) are substituted by application-precise VPNs which
mean security processes like encryption and decryption can be implemented on
individual significant applications. This further restricts the employees to
have access to some restricted information which could have been a better and
efficient choice for the employee at that very point of time.
Though BYOD bandwagon could offer a catalytic way to shrink expenses and
boost overall profitability and efficacy of an organization, it seems to be
very disruptive concerning security issues as it grosses control out of IT
department’s hands. And this is the delinquency which needs be resolved in
order to set real productivity to the organization by implementing BYOD policy.
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