BYOD / Bring Your Own Device news stories

SecOps teams champion a zero trust strategy to support the fight against the escalating risk of cybercrime and help monitor threat actors across a network.

Millions of consumers commit to regular, ongoing payments in return for continuous access to goods and services.

The concept of bring your own device (BYOD) has been around for years, but since the shift to more remote and hybrid working around the world, its popularity has reached bold new heights.

Mainframe-reliant organisations should maintain a robust security posture to ensure that data remains secure.

Organisations that provide flexibility in the types of devices employees use could well be making a difference in their employees’ job satisfaction.

Endpoint protection has a reputation for “admin rights being ripped away” from end-users.

Organisations are ill-equipped to deal with growing security threats such as malware and data theft. 

For organisations that would prefer to pace themselves and take a slower, more systematic approach to SASE adoption, a strategy of ‘crawl, walk, run’ is recommended, writes Bitglass regional sales director for ANZ Wayne Neich.

To support and empower employees, organisations need enterprise-grade security that reaches beyond the confines of the workplace.

Mobile device management has been redefined as ‘modern device management’, and Microsoft’s Intune is now becoming the clear category leader. It is achieving widespread global adoption as part of Microsoft 365’s success, with 35% global MDM market adoption expected in 2021 and over 50% in 2022. 

Experts project that losses and damage from cybercrime will skyrocket, with attacks ranging from spam and phishing to malware and spyware — all compromising the safety of sensitive data and proprietary information. These attacks can be minimised by performing network security audits regularly.

With so many question marks over the road ahead, enterprises need a solution that enables flexibility to work in any environment, as they try to acclimatise to the ‘new normal', writes Bitglass CTO Anurag Kahol.

Key components of network security architecture for the cloud era should be built from the ground up, as opposed to being bolted on to legacy solutions built for organisations functioning only on-premises or from only managed devices.

Enterprises that fail to adapt to the modern business world when it comes to security are likely to fall prey to data breaches and experience a host of other problems, writes Bitglass product marketing manager Will Houcheime.

“Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, there was little interest in BYOPC."

Bitglass’ 2020 BYOD Report suggests that BYOD and personal device security in organisations still leave much to be desired, even as more organisations adopt flexible BYOD arrangements.

To misquote George Orwell, not all cloud access security brokers (CASBs) are created equal.

The global NAC market is estimated to reach $2.21 billion by 2024, finds Frost & Sullivan.

A false sense of security surrounds so-called trusted mobile devices and we need to rethink the ‘trusted’ device security model.

Left unmanaged, personal devices and unmanaged cloud applications can lead to data loss, but if managed too strictly, the IT team risks a backlash from unhappy employees, Bitglass says.

A security solution like mobile device management (MDM) fails to respect user privacy and should not be a common security practice.

The workforce is more reliant than ever on business-critical applications, which can access confidential information from multiple devices at any time and anywhere.

Report finds that 74% of organisations allow BYOD but nearly half lack clear security policies and best practices.

Companies that embrace BYOD are giving employees more freedom to work remotely, resulting in increased productivity, cost savings, and talent retention.