INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Mobile Technology
8 considerations
for a successful
BYOD deployment
BYOD is no longer just a buzzword,
it’s now a bonafide IT policy and
to a growing extent, an employee
expectation. David Goldschlag, SVP of
Strategy from Pulse Secure explores the
challenges and advantages of BYOD
and outlines the many areas businesses
need to address in developing and
deploying a successful BYOD strategy.
T
he concept of BYOD is less than
a decade old but it’s already
outlived its adolescent buzz
and is now a trend that has matured
into a market worth billions. A recent
study carried out by MarketsandMakets
revealed that the BYOD market is
increasing at an annual compound rate
of more than 25% a year. This puts the
enterprise mobility market at $266.17
billion in 2019.
The advantages and challenges
of BYOD go hand-in-hand
Deployed successfully, the advantages
of BYOD include increased productivity,
lower costs and overall employee
satisfaction. For organisations with
remote workforces especially, having
employees being able to log in and
access information easily with mobile
devices means less frustration for
the employee and ultimately more
productivity. The same is true of onsite
employees when they bring their own
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mobile devices and also for guests or
partners who attend meetings.
But the enterprise also needs to ensure
that the devices, apps and information
being used is secure. That’s the
balance that needs to be struck for a
successful BYOD strategy. Putting in
place a policy that’s too restrictive in
terms of devices and apps supported
or technology that’s difficult to use, is
unlikely to get buy-in from employees.
Gartner estimates that by 2016, 20% of
enterprise BYOD programs will fail due to
enterprise deployment of mobile device
management measures being too
restrictive. On the flip side, a data breach
because of poor security could cost
European companies up to 5% of their
annual turnover in fines with the new EU
data protection regulation on the way.
Across countless surveys the number
one perceived inhibitor to widespread
BYOD adoption is security, followed
closely by compliance issues. This is
not an ungrounded fear as the use of
enterprise apps on employee-owned
mobile devices may lead to new data
leakage and connectivity issues. To
that end, any device accessing your
corporate network should be viewed as
a potential risk.
Security also covers the issue of loss
of devices, which, more often than
not, means a loss of data. In the
2015 Data Breach Investigations
Report by Verizon, the forecasted
average loss for a breach of 1,000
records is between $52,000 and
$87,000. As already mentioned, the
new EU data protection regulation
on the way could mean huge fines in
Europe for data losses.
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