With rapid development in mobile and cloud technology and the boost of Internet services in various businesses, smartphones and tablets provide the flexibility for employees to perform their work anywhere. But this comes with considerable risk of data security and privacy issues.
Enterprises have started using the BYOD model where employees bring their own devices for official use. The advantage of allowing such devices is it gives flexibility to employees to use the same device for both work and non-work scenarios. There is also a smaller learning curve for an employee as this is the same device they use in their normal day to day activities, resulting in reduced training costs for the enterprise.
There are obvious disadvantages of using an employee device for official purposes, for example, it drives OS fragmentation for an enterprise and creates additional risks for data leakage and security breaches.
To address the BYOD disadvantages enterprises have started using…