4 Ways To Make BYOD Security Easy For The User

By Sean Sullivan, Security Advisor, F-Secure Labs

Bring your own device (BYOD) emerged as a concept back in 2009 and now, five years later, it is still here and evolving rapidly. According to Forrester, we will see 905 million tablets in use for work and home globally by 2017. Furthermore, according to a recent prediction from Gartner, 38 percent of enterprises will stop offering corporate devices to their employees in 2016, which will subsequently lead to an increase in employees bringing their personal devices to the workplace.

Today, we characterize 29 percent of the global workforce as anytime, anywhere information workers — those who use three or more devices, work from multiple locations, and use many apps. BYOD in the office is becoming inevitable and employees can easily forget that using their personal devices at work creates a greater potential threat surface for hackers to exploit.

Are your clients aware of their workforce’s BYOD practices? You can help them find the answer by asking the following questions:

• Do they ever take weekend work calls on their own smartphone?
• Does anyone open work documents sent to their personal emails on their home laptop or access webmail on a personal tablet?

If they answered “yes” to any of these questions, the workforce has already embraced BYOD without the company even knowing it.

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