| Businesses endeavor to make employees comfortable and well equipped when coming to the workplace to perform their duties. Employees take it for granted that when they arrive at work they have an office space, computers, printers and telephones, fax machines, video equipment and mobile devices such as iPads and iPhones. Businesses are responsible for maintaining company IT equipment with patches and updates, the latest up-to-date software, and virus protection. More businesses are flirting with the idea of bring your own device (BYOD). Employers view BYOD as a means of saving money while improving employee satisfaction. When considering a BYOD program employees must ask themselves if they are ready to have their personally owed devices modified and monitored by their employers, thus limiting the usage of their own personal devices. Through this research several key areas were discovered that pose difficulties and improvements alike for corporations who implement and maintain a BYOD program.;Keywords: Cybersecurity Studies, Professor Cynthia Gonnella, security, risk, privacy, global, trend, policy, law, handheld device, Laptops. |
