How To Make BYOD Security Easy For The User

By Vinothkumar R, Sr. Product Support Engineer, Vembu Technologies

“Bring your own device” (BYOD) is an emerging trend in the IT industry. It provides an option for companies to allow their employees to bring their own devices like laptops and tablets to the workplace and enables the option for users to avoid the limitation of working only from the workplace — employees can choose to work from home with provided access. Most companies are moving to BYOD models since it reduces the cost of the company for device purchase.

Security Risk In The BYOD Model

Companies avoid BYOD due to information security policy violations. They need to keep their data safe from unknown users — but the BYOD model does not lend itself to be centrally monitored since the devices are not managed by the system administrators. Though there are security policies that can be enforced, some of them constrain end users’ seamless use of their devices. Hence, it is more important to have a balanced set of security features which are also easy for the end users to cope with. Some security features which can be implemented by the companies to provide easy access to the employees to work in the BYOD model are as follows.

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