BYOD - Bring your own disaster
According to the latest Mobiquant research BYOD is becoming a standard policy in a large number of companies. Although security of mobile devices is still a main problem for employers. Research confirms that BYOD is one of the main trends and challenges for entrepreneurs.
Companies wondering whether allow employees bring their own mobile devices to work can now stop asking that question. If proper security solution are applied, BYOD can give them an advantage over the competition by strengthening innovations and creativity in the workplace and reducing overall costs of an organization. Establishing cooperation with IT security partner who understands how important it is to provide proper security level for the whole network allows enterprises to gain benefits from BYOD process and protects them from drowning in the onslaught of information.
Primary feature of BYOD is a wide range of mobile devices, technologies and software what may cause problems with providing consistent and hermetic security system. Therefore, it is essential to introduce and implement an integrated security policy - at this point companies also have to control and monitor activity on mobile devices and prevent any internal information leakage.
From the point of view of an employer, data security should be a key feature of BYOD. Every organization decided to encourage employees to use private devices should take care of rational and functional security policy including:
- list of devices that use the company network along with assigned users and their user access level to the enterprise data
- data storage rules and the terms of downloading data on employees’ mobile devices
- procedures in case of a theft, loss and termination of the contract with an employee that will allow to erase company’s data from a mobile device
- terms and procedures for operating systems and software update
- requirements for password usage.
80% of enterprises allows their employees to use their private mobile devices for work. Over 50% of the companies reports cases of data theft and security breaches. What is more shocking, all cases are connected with access to the network from private mobile devices of employees.
Taking into account that over 50% of employees are using they private devices for work, Mobiquant Technology research shows that over a half of companies from Media, Technology and Telecommunication sectors are not investing enough resources in their mobile fleet security. BYOD policy is advantageous and can bring considerable gains but companies introducing this policy should remember that without tailor-made security procedures it can do more harm than good as far as data protection is concerned.
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