Advantages And Objectives Of BYOD

The organization will reap in high sales and production and possible lower costs in employee wages from less workload. The network system will work at a faster pace and if using the voice-over IP system, communication and management costs can be reduced.

IBM states that there are three main benefits of BYOD. There 's an increase in productivity and innovation, employees are satisfied, and the company can sometimes save money. Keep in mind that the benefits all depend on the situation.

For example, all of our director and deputy directors have blackberry mobile devices. These devices are ideal to have when there’s a lot of travel that is in place. These gives the worker time to reply via email and still be able to not miss suspense’s and etc. just because they are not readily available as a typical office

The company will save on heating, cooling and lighting. The lesser employees that are in the building the lesser the energy consumption will be. By telecommuting to work instead of using the traditional methods, companies have a great potential to save energy.

BYOD lets employees use their personal devices for work, connecting to a corporate network. Generally you will cover a portion of the service plan's cost per employee. This policy is great for productivity because your employees don't

Many issues have surfaced, including what legal access an employer has to information on a personally owned device. In a recent study, 60% of employers indicated that they currently allow employees to use their personal phones, tablets, or laptops to access company information, or conduct business from the device. In addition, 14% of the respondents indicated that they don’t currently allow such use, but plan to implement a plan to do so within the next year. This new trend, referred to as “Bring Your Own Device” (BYOD) blurs the distinction of what is acceptable monitoring by an employer. Upon review of the website PrivacyRights.org, an employer can do the following on an employee owned device: “Locking, disabling and data wiping, access to the device, access to phone records or contacts, access to social media or other account username and passwords, monitor GPS and location information, view web browsing history, view pictures, video, or other media, view personal emails, view chat and messaging histories, and limit the use of cloud services.” (Clearinghouse, 2014) To protect both the employee and the employer, it is vital that an employer develop a BYOD policy, which clearly outlines the ramifications of what the employer does and does not have access to. In doing so, if a dispute were to arise

Before this week’s discussion I had no idea of the term BYOD and when I find out what it meant, I immediately disagreed with the idea of allowing employees to bring their own device to work. Before I go on with the reason for my disagreement with this term or policy I would like to mention Bring your own device (BYOD) defined as an IT policy where employees are allowed or encouraged to use their personal mobile devices to work, increasingly, notebook computers to access the company’s data and systems. This policy allows employees four types of access which are mentioned as the following:

Human factors influence polices in the BYOD practice in the workplace because for the most part employees are comfortable and prefer using their own devices compared to company issued devices as they can often multitask between personal and business access. The use of mobile devices comes with the consequences of the device being stolen, lost and exposed to threats. The possibility of these devices falling in the wrong hands or stranger not authorized access to data could result to harmful software application being uploaded or downloaded which could infect the device and compromise the network.

From a business perspective the adoption of BYOD programs may seem like the right decision as a result of the increasing reliance and use of technology. Research and pilots performed by various companies have offered up the idea that implementing BYOD programs in the workplace environment will result in numerous benefits, to include increasing employee satisfaction by enabling flexible work schedules and cost-effectiveness by reducing the number of government devices. However, from a security perspective, there are many potential challenges and risks that can result from prematurely adopting such as program. Before considering the risks of integrating BYOD programs, there needs to be a general consensus that risks will always be of concern

Employee satisfaction and increased productivity are some of the reasons most organizations are accepting the BYOD policy in the workplace. Many concerns exist from a security standpoint when the BYOD program is implemented in my organization

You'll have privacy so you can stay in touch with work or clients if necessary They also provide internet access and allow you to

The issue is two-fold, one being that IT departments have lost the ability to fully manage devices that connect to the company’s network, but also employees are now demanding that they have the ability to conduct company business and have access to extremely secure company resources from multiple personal devices. Obviously this hasn’t gone over very well from the IT perspective. Initially IT departments were very resistant to change taking into consideration the huge security risk allowing these devices onto the network presents, however more and more departments are beginning to adopt these new practices, but at the same time are still very hesitant because they remained very concerned about the inherent risks of permitting personal devices to access and store sensitive corporate data. The timeline outlined below gives an excellent graphical representation of where BYOD started in the early 200’s and where it is and going now that it’s in its third wave and really finding its way as a mature solution in the enterprise.

The reality is that there is no simple solution when it comes to regulating BYOD. Every organization is different and there are number of different factors that have to be taken into consideration.  First a company will have to decide which employees will be allowed access, as well as the types of devices

In the world today technology is used everywhere, no matter if it is personal or business. Although technology has become important for so many reasons, there is also a measure of security that must be taken for protection. Policies are put into place for protection the organization from fall into a pitfall. It has also helped the organization to build better relations with personals, and build growth within the cooperate industry. There a several ways business and personal users can protect their organization. In the next section of this paper I am going to cover some ways and the importance to have policies in place to enforce company regulations.

There is being observed a mass proliferation of heterogeneous deployment of Android, Windows, iOS and Blackberry and other platforms as well connected mobile devices that have started to become a norm. This is also being embraced by organizations that is bring your own device (BYOD) trend on the other side the tablets and smartphone are increasingly becoming a center or say hub for personal and business data. And with the upcoming and already established technologies such as Bluetooth, NFC and others where machine to machine interaction is at its peak and mobile devices have started to become wallets and security badges and more.