This document discusses the risks and benefits of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies in the workplace. Some key risks of BYOD include security issues if devices are lost or stolen, and difficulties retrieving company data from former employees' personal devices. However, BYOD can also increase employee productivity and efficiency by allowing flexible work. The document provides recommendations for minimizing risks, such as enforcing strong passwords, wiping devices clean if lost, and using mobile application management systems.

1. Risks and Benefits of Bringing
Your Own Device
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2. What is BYOD?
The policy Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) permits
employees to use their own technical devices such as
tablets, laptops, and mobile phones in the workplace.
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3. Risks and Concerns
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4. Security
• Security issues are risks of
BYOD policies because
confidential information can
easily be compromised when a
device is lost or stolen.
• If an employee is
terminated, retrieving
company data can be
complicated since work
related data belongs to the
company while the device
belongs to the former
employee.
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5. Security
• Downloading mobile apps and
moving data across different
networks and devices makes
company and corporate data
vulnerable to leaks and
attacks.
• Depending on the type of
business and industry you
work in, strict regulatory
compliance mandates has to
be followed if employees use
their own devices. 5

6. Benefits
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7. Higher Efficiency
• Rather than depend on
company computers and
software to get work
done, work can be done
remotely and away from the
office.
• Integrating professional and
personal lives is easier and
allows greater flexibility to
the employee if personal
devices are allowed at work.
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8. Productivity Gains
• According to a study
released by Cisco’s
Internet Business
Solutions Group, BYOD
employees are gaining a
global average of 37
minutes of productive
time per week, ranging
from 81 minutes of
productive time per week
in the US to 4 minutes of
productive time in
Germany.
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9. Lower Costs to Company
• According to Cisco, companies can save as much as $3,150
annually per employee if they implement a “Comprehensive
BYOD,” which is a more strategic BYOD approach that offers
greater value
• A German employee with an average yearly salary of $45,000
will achieve $75 in additional productivity for companies
while Americans claimed an extra $1,518 if BYOD plans were
implemented
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10. Solutions
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11. Password Protect and Wipe
Data Clean
• Enforce strong passcodes and
require PIN numbers to ensure
that employees are
acknowledging responsibility
for protecting company data.
• Wipe a device clean if a
device is lost or stolen
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12. Limit Mobile Apps
• Rather than ban the use of
mobile apps, companies
should educate their
employees about the risks
third party applications place
on company information.
• Use a Mobile Application
Management (MAM) system
to allow IT to
manage, develop, and control
in-house and third party apps
within the corporate
infrastructure.
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13. Conclusion
• Although implementing BYOD policies in the workplace has its
risks and benefits, the best way to minimize risks and
maximize rewards is to implement a clear, defined policy that
is in the best interest for the company and its employees.
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