Bring your own device

Bring Your Own Device ( BYOD ) is the name for integrating private mobile devices such as laptops, tablets or smartphones in the networks of companies or schools, universities and other ( educational) institutions. Be understood as including organizational guidelines that should govern, to the way in which staff, pupils or students their own electronic office equipment (smartphones, notebooks, tablets ) for service-related or school-related activities, in particular for access to network services and the processing and storing organizational may use or internal company data.

BYOD users should bring greater choice and enable the organization to better focus on personal needs. In education, BYOD offers economic and ecological potentials: Instead of having that schools and universities with financial cost (highly) procure school's own devices, are increasingly privately already available devices of learners can also be used for school purposes.

Another approach is the concept of Corporate Owned, Personally Enabled ( COPE ), in which employees Group's own device is left for private use.

Risks

BYOD can be a security risk for organizations, as this organization data are processed by non- or only partially controllable, other equipments and move these devices on the internal network of the organization and this could disrupt or spy. BYOD also runs counter to the strategy for the standardization of the IT infrastructure. It is feared that with BYOD complexity and thus the operating costs increase.

In addition to security issues BYOD raises legal problems. The Privacy of personal data processed, and operating and business secrets must be respected. The legal liability in the event that BYOD devices come in the use to harm, or damage other equipment or interfere with, must be clarified.

In BYOD policies set hurdles such as VPNs, disk encryption, or even limited service offerings are allowed. Oftentimes also pure virtual desktop infrastructure, terminal server or web applications (mostly webmail ) permits that do not store data on the devices.

Personal limitations

Under certain circumstances -use must allow the organization making adjustments to the private devices which ensure the security of the organization data and the organization network. Depending on whether and how much the organization will contribute financially to the devices, and costs are shifted to -use. An organization that allows the use of personal devices, may save in the procurement of equipment.

In addition, the BYOD use can lead to increased or permanent accessibility.