4 Ways How BYOD Brings Mobile Threat to Your Business

BYOD or bring your own device is an attractive business model as it increases productivity and allows for greater flexibility and also has a consequential impact on the traditional IT framework. Workforce mobility, where personal devices are interfacing with corporate data has caused a shift in IT consumerisation.
Despite the flexibility that BYOD provides us with, creating numerous benefits for employees; it has also put notable pressure on organizations. The hardest hit is medium and small enterprises who don’t have the knowledge and in-house resources to mitigate the challenges.
With data security being a top-notch concern for CEOs, ensuring your employees’ data is secure, is of prime importance. Although BYOD is a good practice to follow, given its advantages, there are many BYOD security challenges associated with it.
  1. Security at stake: A company’s IT department will not have control over employees updating their devices. Most of the personal devices often need software upgrades out of which mobiles and tablets are most prone to malicious attacks. These upgrades if done from untrusted sites, can pose as a major threat for companies which are using large amounts of data.
  2. Intermixing of personal/professional data: With both personal and professional data being stacked simultaneously on employee devices, there is a high risk of personal data being shared with the work environment and sensitive and vital work data being deleted accidentally. Businesses should put up some ground rules and policies when sharing work-related or personal information using remote/mobile devices.

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