Mobile devices have invaded the business world as much as our personal lives. Employees Are Us. When we go to office and we have to work on a different device, it can at times seem a little annoying especially when you have to access personal work on one device, official work on another device. The whole scenario becomes way lot more annoying when you worked from home for official purpose from a different device and when you came to office you are trying to figure out how to sync it with your work machine! So it becomes natural for us to demand more flexibility to do our jobs with respect to what devices are permitted or not. Office workers wish to stay connected and productive even after outside normal business hours. People working in the office might not be comfortable operating on laptops or phones that are being provided by the company. The office can cater to this issue with a solution of providing networks and accessibilities at office on their own devices. This gave rise to the concept of: *Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) : Any device owned by the user can be used anywhere. You can bring your own device to office. *Choose Your Own Device (CYOD) : Pre-approved devices being provided by the company that are available for employees to use on or off the premises. BYOD or CYOD challenges include data security issues, inconsistencies, support expenses, integration issues and policy violations. In the case of CYOD, the company purchases, owns and maintains all devices. An employee chooses from an approved list of devices perhaps via online custom portal. Some challenges which enterprises face in this case include security and scalability. BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) or CYOD- The Verdict The decision of choosing BYOD or CYOD truly depends on the nature of organization. Both the strategies are just different ways of addressing consumerization in the IT market, thus neither strategy is totally right or wrong. The needs and requirements of an enterprise are the major factors for deciding the strategy. It is true that BYOD revolution has spread everywhere but not every enterprise welcomes this strategy and without escape have to face BYOD challenges. The enterprises looking for more control over devices and network usually opt for CYOD. Though BYOD and CYOD have become the two most popular strategies, they are not complete within themselves. BYOD – Device that an employee chooses to use CYOD – Devices the company provides to select from? So which is a better option to provide for enterprises? To better answer this, we now need to focus our attention on the challenges which enterprises face while implementing any of these models. Challenges faced by Enterprises using BYOD or CYOD: * Network and device security breaches leading to malicious use of company data. * Money and time spent to rectify the situation of malpractices or breaches. * Avoiding the use of more resources to compensate the loss happened. * Increasing wireless coverage.

1. Security Challenges For Enterprises (Solved)

3. BYOD AND CYOD
BYOD
Any device
owned by the
user can be
used anywhere.
You can bring
your own
device to office.
CYOD
Pre-approved
devices being
provided by the
company that
are available for
employees to
use on or off
the premises.

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5. Making Choices b/w BYOD vs CYOD !!!
Both strategies are different ways of addressing consumerization in the IT
market. The needs and requirements of an enterprise are the major factors
for deciding the strategy

7. Challenges using BYOD or CYOD

8. Network and device security breaches lead to malicious use of
company data
Challenges using BYOD or CYOD

9. Challenges using BYOD or CYOD
Network and device security breaches leads to malicious use of company data.
Money and time
being
unnecesarily
spent to rectify the
situation of malpractices
or breaches.

10. Challenges using BYOD or CYOD
Network and device security breaches leads to malicious use of company data.
Avoiding use of additional resourcesto
compensate the loss happened

11. Challenges using BYOD or CYOD
Network and device
security breaches leads to
malicious use of company
data.
Increasing
wireless coverage, incurs more cost

12. Challenges using BYOD or CYOD
Network and device security breaches leads to malicious use of company data.
Different technology and devices leads to expenditure
on hiring people with relevant technical
knowledge.

13. Challenges using BYOD or CYOD
Network and device security breaches leads to malicious use of company data.
Lot of fuss
amongst the
device
management
team of an
enterprise

14. Network and device security breaches leads to malicious use of company data.

15. Lets Work On Meeting Challenges

16. Tips To Meet Such Challenges
Whether choosing
BYOD or CYOD
strategy, clarity of
policies among
employees is
essential

17. Tips To Meet Such Challenges
Tight security
and monitoring
of corporate
data must be
top most
priority

18. Tips To Meet Such Challenges
Streamlined Device
Management
Platform. Tight
security based
solutions for the
access of corporate
data.

19. Tips To Meet Such Challenges
Use Partitioning
which isolates
personal data from
business data and
applications.

20. Tips To Meet Such Challenges
To avoid all legal
issues and
disagreements
further, users’
agreements must
be cross checked

21. Tips To Meet Such Challenges
To bring
consistency in all
business
processes, Team
Meetings are
essential

22. Final Touchpoints...
● Product-focused approach is a must.
● Perfect end-user testing.
● Team Testing a product can be a hyperbole but
many established enterprises are already doing it.

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Author
Director
In the past, Ambuj has held consulting
roles with various global technology
leaders, such as Infosys, Fiserv and
Xchanging in India. He holds a graduate
degree in Chemical Engineering from the
Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee.
Ambuj Tayal
Write to me at ambuj.tayal@algoworks.com

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