Bring Your Own Device to work! Employees are comfortable with their own personal mobile devices. The will have a wide range of smart phones and tablets.
Implementing BYOD is a hardware cost savings to your company and productivity enhancer for the employee, however, brings on a few other things to consider:
- Software they need to use – Is it portable to all devices?
- Security – Your employees now have access to your databases – Are their smart phones and tables secure and password protected?
- Some things to consider if you allow BYOD at your company:
- What devices will you support?
- What OS versions and/or web browsers will you support?
- Who will have network access and what level of access will they be assigned?
- What applications will they need on their device?
- Determine what security level what want on these devices? Will you require the device itself to have a password? Does the application the employee will be using require a password and will it auto log them out after a set amount of time?
- Do you know how to disable that persons login remotely in case the device is lost or stolen.
- Reassess your security and practices frequently.
If you provide the device of the employee brings their own, make sure the access to your valuable data is secure!