Bring Your Own Device Policy(BYOD)

Bring your own device policy

A Bring Your Own Device Policy covers an employee’s acceptable use of personal devices on corporate networks, defines security controls, and describes supported devices and apps.

What is a Bring Your Own Device Policy?

personal devices on corporate networks, defines security controls, and describes supported devices and apps.

A Bring Your Own Device Policy also outlines the company’s position and governance on the use of such devices and ensures that the company’s network security is not compromised.

A Bring Your Own Device Policy sets out the company’s rights in determining how data should be used and protected, including the period after the employee no longer works for the company. It defines the rights and duties between employees and the company, including the company’s right to access the employee’s device for security reasons. The policy also outlines the procedure during termination of employment, as well as disciplinary consequences for violations.

What are the benefits of BYOD?

• Familiarity: It helps in raising the productivity of the worker because he is compatible with his own device and helps him gather information quickly and feel comfortable with his personal device

• Work Flexibility: It allows allowing employees to use their own devices, they are able to work anywhere at any time without needing to use other tools to access work documents.

• Savings money: That means that employers save money since they don’t have to buy devices for each of their employees an added benefit of this is that employees.

But you need to know the sort of information is it risk information then the BYOD is not the right move but if its normal risk information the BYOD policy will saves the company money and gives employees greater flexibility and comfortable with their own devices.

Checklist of bring your own device policy

• Acceptable use
• ser responsibilities / Corporate IT responsibilities
• Devices the bring your own device will allow the employees to use and the IT support
• Monitoring & privacy
• Device reset and data deletion
• Policy enforcement
• Security controls

What is the scope of the BYOD policy?

The scope should be including in BYOD policy

• The device that the employee will work on: Like specific device allowing the employees work on like Android smartphones or specific iPhone models what versions and levels of devices your company will support.
• Device password: BYOD policy must outline password specifications for your users and is the device must rotate passwords after a certain period of time.
• Address the Apps:Clearly state which apps will be supported.
• Employee leaves or terminate BYOD policy must address what happens when an employee leaves or is terminated from the company. It must also include actions that will be taken if a device is lost.

What is multifaceted BYOD?

It’s the way to protect the data and to prevent data approach Technology: Provide specialized apps, ideally with two-factor authentication, that contain all company data. Look for apps that can be deleted remotely in the event the device is lost.

Training: Offer training to employees annually as part of your company’s cybersecurity program. Make it clear that there are risks of information loss and employees have a role in managing that exposure.

Insurance/Liability considerations: Take note of the insurance and liability concerns that apply to your organization.

How to security controls the BYOD policy?

In order to prevent unauthorized access, devices must be password-protected using the features of the device and a strong password is required to access the company network and the company determined the apps that the employees are automatically prevented from downloading, installing and using any app that does not appear on the company’s list of approved apps.

Key terms

Bring Your Own Device Policy: Covers an employee’s acceptable use of personal devices on corporate networks, defines security controls, and describes supported devices and apps.

Device: An object or machine that has been invented for a particular purpose and the employee use it to do his work for the site he works for.

Cybersecurity: Cyber security is the practice of defending computers, servers, mobile devices, electronic systems, networks, and data from malicious attacks. It’s also known as information technology security or electronic information security. The term applies in a variety of contexts, from business to mobile computing, and can be divided into a few common categories.

phone application: Its tools use to work on the job tasks and make it done and the company BYOD policy scoop allowed the app that can be use while using the device.

BYOD acceptable use: Activities that directly or indirectly support the business of Company and the company determined the websites the Employees are blocked from accessing to certain websites during work hours while their devices are connecting to the company network.

Key points included

• Acceptable activities for business purposes;
• Audio/visual capabilities of approved devices;
• Approved and excluded applications and
• Password protection and security management.
• Cybersecurity
• Scoops of the BYOD policy 
• Company data Secret level
• BYOD company apps list