Bring Your Own Device: How to balance convenience and security

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How to Balance Convenience and Security
Bring Your Own Device

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• The emergence of smartphones and tablets as
  mobile devices has been a significant change in
  the ICT landscape in recent times.  Allied with
  the increasing prevalence of private and public
  WiFi networks, Bring Your Own Device (BYOD),
  has proved to be both a blessing and a curse for
  ICT departments.  A blessing in that BYOD removes
  the cost of equipment from the ICT budget.   A
  curse in that the ICT department must now try to
  support users as they attempt to connect a wide
  range of different devices and operating systems
  to a network.  An attendant issue is that
  of online security, with unmonitored and unknown
  devices potentially introducing malware to a
  network, and of data and bandwidth theft by
  unauthorised users who manage to connect to the
  network.
• The IT Head faces a challenge balancing the
  convenience of BYOD with support and security
  implications, particularly in maintaining an
  adequate level of online security.

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• With WiFi, the ICT department has no knowledge or
  control over the devices that can connect to the
  network, the apps they run and their malware
  status.  Any new devices must be checked.   If
  all the user needs is Internet access, they can
  sit outside a firewall with scanning of websites
  and any downloaded material for malware.  No user
  data 

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How to Balance Convenience and Security
Bring Your Own Device

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