Table of Contents
- 1 What is a policy that allows employees to use their personal mobile devices?
- 2 What are the challenges of allowing users to connect to corporate systems with personal devices?
- 3 What are the challenges of personal mobile devices at work?
- 4 What are some of the unique challenges that mobile devices pose to an organization?
- 5 What are the pros and cons of BYOD policy in the workplace?
What is a policy that allows employees to use their personal mobile devices?
BYOD stands for bring your own device. It’s an IT policy that allows, and sometimes encourages, employees to access enterprise data and systems using personal mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets and laptops.
What are the security risks that these devices pose to an organization?
If your business does decide to allow employees use of their personal mobile devices for work purposes, you should be aware of the following risks:
- Data theft.
- Malware.
- Legal problems.
- Lost or stolen devices.
- Improper mobile management.
- Insufficient employee training.
- Shadow IT.
What are the challenges of allowing users to connect to corporate systems with personal devices?
What are the challenges of allowing users to connect to corporate systems with personal devices?
- 5 Security Risks and a Surprising Challenge.
- Physical access.
- Malicious Code.
- Device Attacks.
- Communication Interception.
- Insider Threats.
What are some challenges for organizations with bring your own devices BYOD policies?
What are the disadvantages of BYOD?
- BYOD challenge #1: a wide variety of security risks.
- BYOD challenge #2: BYOD compliance issues.
- BYOD challenge #3: issues with data removal and retrieval.
- BYOD challenge #4: loss of control over hardware.
- BYOD challenge #5: vulnerability to malware.
What are the challenges of personal mobile devices at work?
The top challenges with blending personal device use and the workplace are: security, cited by 55% of survey respondents; securing network access, 54%; network performance issues, 39%; and increased storage requirements, 37%.
Why are mobile devices hard to secure?
Since mobile users trust the official app stores, they download scores of apps from them, making them a fertile ground for hackers. Hackers can spread malware to a much larger audience by infiltrating the official app stores, like the Judy malware and HummingWhale malware, which created a botnet out of infected devices …
What are some of the unique challenges that mobile devices pose to an organization?
Mobile devices pose some unique problems when it comes to securing data….
- Portability. Mobile devices are at risk due to their very nature of being portable.
- Peeping Toms.
- Risky device configuration.
- Phishing attacks.
- Unauthorized iCloud/Google account access.
- Text-based attacks.
- Malicious Wi-Fi networks.
- Desire for convenience.
What are the pros and cons of a BYOD bring your own device policy in the workplace?
The Pros and Cons of a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) to Work…
- Savings for the company on purchasing and replacing technology.
- No learning curve for employees.
- Potential improvement of employee morale.
- More up-to-date tech due to personal upgrades.