Bring Your Own Device Issues

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Bring your own device (BYOD) is a security framework and tools to facilitate use of personally owned devices to access corporate networks and data.

• introduces compatibility, support, and security challenges:
  • compatibility/support
    • wide range of devices, OS versions, and vendor support for patches,
      • makes ensuring connectivity to corporate network apps and data complex
  • security
    • devices aren’t fully under administrative control
    • insider threat actor could install apps that pose a risk
• issues can be partially mitigated by enterprise mobility management (EMM) suites
  • aka MDM
  • is a type of network access control solution that registers devices as they connect to the network
  • can then enforce security policies while the device is connected
    • can restrict use of device functions or personal apps
• a corporate workspace is an app that is segmented from the rest of the device
  • allows more centralized control over corporate data
  • users must agree to acceptable use policies
  • users may have to permit some level of inspection of device to protect corporate data