Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)

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.