Your BYOD Policy – What? (pt.5)

Are you still onboard with Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) as a tool to improve your organisation’s productivity and help make your team “happier”? Then today, I am going to give you something harder to think about.

BYOD and Your Information

Allowing one of your team to work on their own laptop is more than just giving into “I really like my Mac” (insert tech preference of employee here). When your team does their work on your equipment, you have the final say in how they access your information and what safeguards your employee needs to protect it.

Quick aside here – You do have tools deployed to protect your information on computers? Someone told you they were too expensive? A sales person kept adding to the costs when you asked about them? Have a look here:

Technology Solutions | Octagon Technology

I have mentioned earlier in this series the difficulty of deploying even the most basic of cyber security tools onto an employee’s device – a free copy of the company’s anti-virus solution is usually an easy sell, but you only have Windows licences and they have a Mac.

Now is the time to think about what limits you are going to set on BYOD.

BYOD Limits

These limits should be included in your BYOD policy and be aimed at protecting your organisation’s information.

I need to talk about information classification here – but I have recently written about that in my series on the Cyber Security Insider Threat. That is where you need to go now – once you have read it come back here for the conclusion:

The Insider threat – Start thinking about sorting. (pt.2) – CyberAwake

The article nicely illustrates how BYOD is a risk to your organisation and  how everyone should be challenged if you see a working practice that you are unhappy with.

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Back to looking at what…

Further Reading

BYOD Bring-Your-Own-Device – A Primer (pt.1)

BYOD – Where do you start? (pt.2)

A Real-World Example – BYOD A Primer (pt.3)

Your BYOD Policy – Where do you start? (pt.4)

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