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Bring your own device (BYOD) has become increasingly more prevalent in businesses with over 71% of companies planning, tolerating or supporting its infiltration into normal corporate work practices, according to an infograph published by Matrix 42. According to the below infograph the most common devices being utilised by employees via BYOD for work are laptops, PDA’s, mobile devices, and tablet computers.
Simon Loughran one of Certification Europe’s leading ISO 27001 – Information Security Management Systems auditors published a paper called ‘Security and Mobile Devices’ on this topic recently. The paper identified one of the largest risk associated with the usage of BYOD devices such as mobile devices is inherent with their portability and that is precisely the intended functionality. Advanced technological changes allow people to work outside the corporate networks on wireless and remote connectivity, which in turn facilitates easily accessible and shareable company information. This creates a new risk area for companies as it has moved outside of the established security perimeter that has been so meticulously developed.
The solution is to develop subsequent selected security controls around the mobile devices and BYOD devices which are as stringent as those employed around company devices.
The Matrix 42 infograph was developed after the company completed a survey of 600 enterprise IT professionals and was published via Visual.ly.
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