Bring Your Own Device Briefing Paper Summer Semester - 2015 Name: Heshan Ranasinghe (Undergraduate) Student ID: 4962796 Group No: Group 03 Submission Date: Tuesday 20th January at 5pm Abstract In this paper, I will examine the three significant topics of bring your own device. The first phase of the report I will be examining what is BYOD and how it relate to the workplace. Second part is to find out the advantages and disadvantages of BYOD in workplaces. Finally giving a general view of how this affects to employers and employees with the info that I research in this review. Introduction Bring your own device is an alternative strategy, allowing employees, business partners and other users to utilize a personally selected and …show more content…
In the review I will go through the issues in both employers and employees, prospective and provide a justified view about this. What is BYOD and how it related to the work place Bring your own device trend is all about companies, allowing employees to bring their own devices to work to be used for work purposes. Then connected them up to the company network. In trend is opposite to the HYOD “Here’s your own device” was a program where the company provided devices for the employees. With the new trend, organizations are tasked with evaluating the risk associated with data transported with personal devices. So that organizations are drafting and implementing new BYOD security policies such as defined rule and regulations, right to wipe data on mobile devices, inspect the smart phone or other services, installing application to track device usage on the web, defined what happen when personal devices are lost, stolen or damaged, the procedure when employment terminates and the consequences when the policy violations. BYOD has brought new legal challenges to the company …show more content…
When an organization is able to implement BYOD at their work place first they should fulfill the legal obligation, such as private Act of 1988, Archives Act of 1983 and the Freedom of Information Act 1982. As though BYOD increase the liability risk to the organization such as managing issues such as software licensing, damage to employee’s personal data, expectation privacy in the event of the investigation, Freedom of information request or incident response. (ASD, 2014) Considering the Financial implementation of BYOD in employer prospective. Companies have to do upfront cost/benefit analysis for company currently own laptops, mobile devices, maintain cost and maintain plans. The cost for the policy development and program management, upgrading in place enterprise security and help desk. Although BYOD help to reduce the hardware cost that employees pay for their own device. However, there is an overall cost increase as a result of the technical support for a variety of
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Our primary measure of value for this project will be in increasing use of the internet on the go for our employees by giving them direct wire-less internet service in their vehicles. The addition of wireless Internet service will provide on the go service to better assist with customer service and improve the quality of work for our employees. The added value of employee productivity while using the wireless service on their mobile devices and in vehicles will be difficult to measure, but using surveys to further measure the success of this project.
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With the increasingly ubiquitous nature of mobile devices and online availability, including smartphones and tablets, there is also an understandable concern about the level of security that is afforded to such devices. This can be considered as increasingly important given the proliferation of policies such as BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) which are being used by diverse organizations as a way of lowering the cost of ownership for such devices while also leveraging the flexibility advantages that their utilization can bring. It is therefore an area of immense interest due to the changing and emerging nature of both the technology itself as well as the security concerns. Due to the sensitive and confidential information that would exist on such devices, it is imperative that security solutions and processes are implemented in order to protect and secure such content from the proliferation of threats and vulnerabilities which can affect mobile devices (Juniper Networks, n.d.). Mobile devices are being exposed to a record number of security threats, with potentially alarming statistics indicating a 400 percent increase in Android malware, for example, while Wi-Fi connections are also being increasingly targeted.
In the first reading “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr he explains that he can feel himself reading but he is not comprehending the information the way that he used to. He feels this way because of the growing technology that we have. In the Second reading “The Influencing Machines” by Brooke Gladstone and Josh Neufeild they explain how technolgy influences us. In todays society, technology is what is growing each and every day. With new savy phones, laptops, tablets, watches etc. Everyone has to at least have one tech savy device. These devices is what keeps our society moving. Although, these technologies can distract us it actually makes it harder for us to read. With all the new ways, we can just read
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