The document discusses the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend, highlighting its advantages such as increased productivity and employee satisfaction, but also addressing significant security risks. It provides a comprehensive guide on creating effective BYOD policies, focusing on training, device restrictions, access controls, and consequences for policy violations. Overall, a well-implemented BYOD strategy can enhance employee mobility while ensuring corporate data security.

1. How to Do BYOD Right

2. BYOD:
(Bring Your Own Device)
A trend allowing employees to use their
own personal devices, like smartphones,
tablets and laptops, for work purposes.

3. of organizations already have mobility
policies in place to accommodate BYOD.
60%

4. 70%of employers reported their
workers’ productivity increased
thanks to BYOD.

5. Advantages of BYOD include:
Efficiency
Productivity
Employee Satisfaction
Lower Equipment Costs
Accessibility

6. However, there are some barriers.
Viruses
Data Breaches
Other Risks
Loss of Devices
IT departments tend to fear:

7. What’s more frightening is that employees
are prone to using personal devices for work,
even without permission and set BYOD
policies. This is certainly risky, but employees
today are desperate to use technology
they are familiar and comfortable with, even
if it’s against the rules.

8. Do BYOD The Right Way
So why not make rules that accommodate
this employee need, while also addressing
security concerns? Create a BYOD policy.

9. 1. Make sure you know and define the
purpose of your policy.
What are your intentions?
Cost savings? Increased productivity?
Whatever your reason is,
communicate this to your team.

10. 2. Training is important!
While most users already know how to effectively use
their devices, they might not know how to take the
appropriate steps to ensure security. Establish the
best practices of using a personal device for work,
and train employees on data loss prevetion, creating
effective passwords, locking devices, etc.

11. 3. Decide if you want to limit the options.
This is up to your business, but by specifying what
types of devices employees can use, support and
security become much easier. You can also keep a list
of which devices and users are permitted to access
corporate information to better monitor activity.

12. 4. Decide whether or not your IT department
services personal devices.
This adds more responsibility to the IT team, and
requires knowledge of all sorts of devices, but it also
keeps things in-house.

13. 5. With personal devices comes personal
data. Know who owns what!
You must create expectations about having
personal content on a device used for work, in case
it’s lost or stolen and needs to be wiped. Additionally,
decide whether or not corporate data can be stored
on a device’s hard drive.

14. 6. Decide and define how you will control user
access to corporate information.
Will you establish which apps, programs, services
and websites your employees can use? Will you
create levels of access within your environment?
Whatever you decide, communicate this to your
employees and then stick to it.

15. 7. What are the consequences?
These are rules, so you need to decide how to
address rulebreakers. Make sure employees know
they will be held accountable for straying from
the BYOD policy.

16. 8. Have an exit strategy.
You want to make sure that employees who leave the
job don’t take your corporate data with them! Create
specific procedures, which might include removing
their network access, wiping devices, etc.

17. BYOD addresses the rising need
for employees to be mobile
and more productive.
They will appreciate the ability to customize
how and where they work. With a BYOD
policy, businesses will rest easier knowing
there’s a level of transparency and specific rules
to point to when employees have questions.

18. By clearly communicating company
BYOD policies, a business will build
trust and good rapport with
employees while ensuring that
company information remains safe.

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