FEATURE : BYOD
Designing the best BYOD policy
What makes a good BYOD policy ? With the influx of personal devices in the workplace and the unprecedented risk of data breaches and malware , tightening IT security at a company can seem like a daunting task . Just how difficult a task is it ? We hear from industry experts on how companies and employees are fashioning comprehensive BYOD policies especially now that organisations have had to adopt work from home models .
In the wake of lockdown restrictions imposed as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic , employees across the Middle East have been compelled to use their own PCs and mobile devices for business tasks whether their IT departments support them or not . And looking at how the pandemic brought businesses to a standstill overnight and with many organisations not even having a BYOD policy in place , managing and mitigate security risks associated with opening up your corporate network to personal devices can be tricky . And while the rules in a BYOD policy often vary depending on a user ’ s role in the organisation , CIOs and the IT teams they lead have the responsibility of developing comprehensive BYOD policies . And with BYOD having garnered momentum by the work from home ( WFH ) model that most enterprises have implemented because of the imposed lockdown restrictions across many countries on the region , industry experts warn enterprises that there is no one size fits all approach .
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James Hennah , Director – Security , BT Asia , Middle East and Africa , said with rapid advances in and adoption of mobile working and the BYOD www . intelligentcio . com INTELLIGENTCIO
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