Bring

Your

Own

DeviceTHEME: Enabling digital transformation

So What Is BYOD, BYOC or BYOT?

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Bottom Line Upfront Bring your own device (BYOD) is an IT policy where

employees are allowed or encouraged to use their

personal mobile devices—and, increasingly, notebook

PCs—to access enterprise data and systems

The concept has gained momentum at the workplace

in many organization but its adoption approaches are

varied

Organization who embrace BYOD concept have many

benefits however its unstructured adoption might be

catastrophic for an organization

It is not a matter of when to allow employees to bring

their own devices to work – it is now a matter of how

to manage BYOD in the work place

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BYOD Benefits

• Increased productivity provides access to:

• Advanced technology

• Personal applications anytime

• Workforce Mobility leads to:

• An increase in employee satisfaction

• A role change – now called “mobile workers”

• Cost Savings:

• Hardware – employees purchase their own

• Decrease in support

BYOD Risks

RISK ISSUES TYPES OF RISKS

Security • Misuse of mobile technologies

• Lost or stolen personal devices - 70

million Smartphones lost/stolen in 2011

Only 7% Recovered

Human Resources • Labor laws – employees working after

after hours

• Subsidies/reimbursement cost –

taxable income?

Legal Implications • Confidentiality of corporate

information

• Storing sensitive information on

personal devices

Hidden Costs • IT/Network infrastructures

• Support Systems – multiple device

users

• Application usages

• Compliance management

Best Practices

• Registering devices to ensure security:

– Virus protection, authentication,

encryption

• Provisioning of firm-authorized apps

• IT use monitoring

• User education

– Compliance with firm security policies

– Mobile Device registration with IT

– Password protection

– Use of unsanctioned apps

– Lost/stolen devices

BYOD MODELS

Classification of BYOD Models from the least to the

Most flexible (Source: Alberta Education (2012,p.11))

MDM software can only mitigate not eliminate the

BYOD challenges (Moschella,2005)

Devices Owned by the support staff

members

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Smart Phones

80

(54%)

Laptops

44

(30%)

Tablets

24

(16%)

Staff members allowed to use their Own

Devices for Official duties.

9

Yes

112

(76%)

No

36

(24%)

Distribution of the staff members by the Degree of

Compliance of the Policy Supporting the Components

of BYOD.

10

32

(21.6%)

38

(25.7%)

48

(32.4%)

30

(20.3%)

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

Low Medium High Not Sure

Degree of Compliance

Per

centa

ge

Proposed Hybrid BYOD Model

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Mobile Device Strategy

SecurityApplication

Portfolio

Who Pays?Backing Up

Devices

Policies

Mobile Device Management

• Not new!

• Optimize functionality

• Increase security

• Compliance

• Is MDM a requirement for BYOD?

Common Features OF MDM

• Device provisioning and configuration

• Policy application

• Security

• Backup / restore

• Remote lock and wipe

• Sandboxing

• Activity logging

• Reporting / dashboard

Advanced Features Of MDM

• Network access control

• Application deployment

and management

• Firmware updates

• Diagnostics

• Network usage and

support

• Mobile asset tracking

and management

• Troubleshooting and

diagnostic tools

• Remote control

• Remote administration

• GPS tracking and

'breadcrumb' mapping

Most Common

Platforms

Common in Legal:

• Airwatch

• MobileIron

• McAfee

• Fiberlink (MaaS360)

• Good

• BlackBerry• For BlackBerry Devices

CONCLUSIONIn adopting BYOD; the presence

of benefits means that BYOD can

be implemented or exploited by

organization. The presence of

challenges means that BYOD

should be implemented

cautiously. Thus, hybrid model

guides on how to adopt BYOD so

as to exploit the benefits while at

the same time addressing the

challenge of BYOD in Kenya.

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