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What Are The Advantages And Disadvantages Of BYOD

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Addressing Security Concerns in BYOD through Sandboxing Abhishek Mishra (Author) Information Technology Department, Sardar Patel Institute of Technology Mumbai, India Bhishm Narula (Author) Information Technology Department, Sardar Patel Institute of Technology Mumbai, India Dhara Vyas (Author) Information Technology Department, Sardar Patel Institute of Technology Mumbai, India Dr Radha Shankarmani (Author) Information Technology Department, Sardar Patel Institute of Technology Mumbai, India Abstract— A new trend of implementing Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) as an IT policy is being adopted by companies worldwide. It permits employees to bring their own portable devices like tablets, …show more content…

Some of these are based on virtualization of the device, others offer specialized applications for specific business processes such as emails or VPNs. Furthermore, some products offer remote connections to the enterprise networks. Most of these solutions, however, exhibit the disadvantage that they either require a modification of the underlying operating system/kernel or a rooted device. In the traditional case, the device being used by the employee is provided by the company and IT officials of the enterprise can make the necessary modifications to the device kernel and Operating System (OS), to enforce that the required enterprise policies cannot be bypassed by employees. For instance, the enterprise could certify a certain OS configuration and guarantee the correct execution of binaries. But modifying the OS of an employee device is not an appealing solution since it prevents employees from installing updates on their devices, and it requires the consent of the employee. Moreover, in BYOD scenarios, these solutions cannot be deployed. This stems from the fact that given the device does not belong to the enterprise, the latter does not have any justification in modifying the underlying

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