Now-a-days many organizations try to employ the concept of ‘Bring
your own device (BYOD)’. In this concept, employees are encouraged to bring
their own portable devices to their work place, and do their assigned task by
those devices. Employees are allowed to use the company’s private network and
other resources.
This concept is really beneficial for the organizations. Now
the organizations do not need to buy computing devices for their employees,
which help them to save a lot of fixed cost. Also when the employees use their
own devices, the organizations are no more responsible for the maintenance of
that device. By this, organizations save maintenance cost. Moreover the organizations
don’t have to buy costly operating system licenses anymore. Overall cost saving
in these purposes is quite significant.
However, there exist some challenges associated with this
concept. The first and very important one may be the security of the network. When
everyone is using their own device, then maintaining the security of every
device as well as the whole network will be a very challenging stuff. If the
security of a device is compromised, data inside that device may need to be
compromised. All other data exists in that network is now in threat as well. Next
challenge will be to keep the confidential data safe. When different devices
use different software, it is very hard to keep track of all the data flow, and
keep the confidential data safe. An employee may copy some confidential data in
his/her device and go home; but that data is now no more safe.
Despite all those challenges, in my opinion, BYOD is a good
initiative taken by some organizations. With the advancement and the growth of
the potable technologies, all organizations will eventually choose this concept
to reduce cost, and make a flexible work environment for the employees.