A Review of BYOD Security Challenges, Solutions and Policy Best Practices

Recently, many employees' own smartphones and tablets; where they use these devices in the workplace either for personal use or to perform functional tasks. Perhaps this considered as the main motivation for numerous organization to pay attention to `bring your own device' business trend; which is related to the use of personal devices for business purposes. For an organization, this brings some opportunities and security risks. The establish of BYOD policies always be a tough task, as an organization needs to avoid security risks and increase employee productivity. However, the associated security risks with BYOD policy can be managed by developing an effective security policy and adopt some technical security control and procedures. This research paper covers the review of current BYOD security challenges and issues, security solutions and policy best practices in organizational perspective. Moreover, a comprehensive security policy model presented and discussed.