BYOD Bring Your Own Device
BYOD is an upcoming trend that is being followed by many enterprises where employees can use there personal devices at workplace. BYOD’s easy to use mobile application helps to access shared data smoothly and also provides the advantage of working anytime and anywhere using their own devices. Use of BYOD devices has helped to improve employee satisfaction and productivity.
BYOD is practiced in many schools these days where students are staff are allowed to use their personal device on the school wireless networks. Use of BYOD offers the students with eBooks, learning apps and other useful things. BYOD helps to instill in students a sense of responsibility and help encourage students to stay on task.
BYOD calls for three critical components :
- A software application for managing the devices connecting to the network.
- A written policy outlines the responsibilities of both the employer and the users.
- An agreement that the users should sign acknowledging that they have understood the policy.
Since BYOD may be used by employees for personal use they can access corrupted sites hence affecting organizational security. To make best use of BYOD it is necessary to take security measures to prevent data loss.
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