BYOD
Noun
Meaning
BYOD (uncountable)
Initialism of bring your own device: a business or school policy of allowing employees or students to connect to a network from personally-owned mobile devices.
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Aaron is the author of Cisco ISE for BYOD and Secure Unified Access (Cisco Press) and many published white papers and design guides.
According to the global report, only 41% of SMEs felt positive about mobility when asked about the risks versus the benefits of BYOD.
After all, if your employees don’t know how to deal with ransomware on their personal devices, will they be able to take the steps to prevent an attack on work devices (and then, too, there is the whole BYOD issue to worry about).
Against this backdrop of BYOD and self-serve cloud applications, corporate IT struggles to control and secure corporate data.
And if organisations haven’t yet established firm bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies and security programs, all of the smart phones, tablets and even laptops employees bring to work are risks.
Although MDM provides a powerful tool for IT to control mobile devices, few BYOD users welcome such control, even if they're using their devices to do work.