Secure Wipe Out in BYOD Environment

This study is a narrative review that aimed at exploring the benefits, risks, and policy controls of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) for maximum and effective BYOD adoption. BYOD is a paradigm where employees use their personal devices such as Smartphones, tablets, laptops, etc., to access organizations’ enterprise resources such as email, file servers, and database contents and networks. Significant empirical evidence from literature revealed that 82% of organizations have a BYOD program, while 68% of organizations see a jump in productivity after switching to BYOD. Despite these important virtues, numerous investigations have shown that threats and attacks on organization data and resources: confidentiality, integrity, and availability are the greatest security concern in BYOD environment. In this study, the authors adopted a narrative review methodology. A search, using keywords, was conducted and fifty-five peer-reviewed journal papers within the last 5 years of this study were identified. These journals came from Pro Quest databases, ScienceDirect, Taylor and Francis, Crossref.com, Walden University collection of scholarly and peer-reviewed journals, and other related texts. Inclusion and exclusion criteria were applied, followed by a quality appraisal of the selected articles, before data were extracted. Results show that good BYOD policies, guidelines, and practices coupled with good controls and management may avert security breaches on employees' and organizations' devices and resources. Results also show that it is possible to use machine learning approaches to handle threats and attacks such as persistent threats, data leakage, and data theft, denial of service (DOS) attack, intrusion attack, and untrusted network in BYOD environment. Findings may positively impact and equip organizations and employees with proven information for successful security and risk management programs that may increase mutual trust and a healthy BYOD adoption environment.

With increasing development and adoption of information and communication technology initiatives internationally, evolving trends such as bring your own device (BYOD) is rapidly changing operational methods of organizations in attempt to improve efficiency and productivity. However, for organizations to successfully benefit from BYOD, several dynamics relating to security and privacy in BYOD environments must be examined and understood. This article reviews information security and privacy, mobile computing, and current organizational practices that shed light on BYOD and the issues behind its adoption. The review will assist organizations and IT professionals to understand the increasing demands of BYOD, and its challenges.

As the bring your own device (BYOD) to work trend grows, so do the network security risks. This fast-growing trend has huge benefits for both employees and employers. With malware, spyware and other malicious downloads, tricking their way onto personal devices, organizations need to consider their information security policies. Malicious programs can download onto a personal device without a user even knowing. This can have disastrous results for both an organization and the personal device. When this happens, it risks BYODs making unauthorized changes to policies and leaking sensitive information into the public domain. A privacy breach can cause a domino effect with huge financial and legal implications, and loss of productivity for organizations. This is a difficult challenge. Organizations need to consider user privacy and rights together with protecting networks from attacks. This paper evaluates a new architectural framework to control the risks that challenge organizations and the use of BYODs. After analysis of large volumes of research, the previous studies addressed single issues. We integrated parts of these single solutions into a new framework to develop a complete solution for access control. With too many organizations failing to implement and enforce adequate security policies, the process needs to be simpler. This framework reduces system restrictions while enforcing access control policies for BYOD and cloud environments using an independent platform. Primary results of the study are positive with the framework reducing access control issues.

Bring your own device (BYOD) is used for the benefits offered by allowing the use of mobile devices to perform business tasks, but the following questions should be analysed if any organisation want to adopt a BYOD environment: What threats do currently face mobile devices that are being used in BYOD environments? What are the characteristics of the security models proposed until now in order to manage BYOD? Are there integral security models with the minimum requirements in order to take full advantage of BYOD? What are the basic controls that should be taken into account for designing security policies in a business with a BYOD environment? What are the main differences between security on BYOD environments vs. security on corporate owned mobile device environments, regarding how easy is to meet security needs? By giving answers to these questions, we will be able to have a clear vision of what it takes to adopt BYOD in an organisation.

Bring your own device (BYOD) paradigm that permits employees to come with their own mobile devices to join the organizational network is rapidly changing the organizational operation method by enhancing flexibility, productivity, and efficiency. Despite these benefits, security issues remain a concern in organizational settings. A considerable number of studies have been conducted and published in this domain without a detailed review of the security solution mechanisms. Moreover, some reviews conducted focused more on conventional approaches such as mobile content management, and application content management. Hence, the implementation of security in BYOD using the conventional method is ineffective. Thus, machine learning approaches seem to be the promising approach, which provides a solution to the security problem in the BYOD environment. This study presents a comprehensive systematic mapping review that focused on the application of the machine learning approach for the mitigation of security threats and attacks in the BYOD environment by highlighting the current trends in the existing studies. Five academic databases were searched and a total of 753 of the primary studies published between 2012 and 2021 were initially retrieved. These studies were screened based on their title, abstract and full text to check their eligibility and relevance for the study. However, forty primary studies were included and analyzed in the systematic mapping review (SMR). Based on the analysis and bubble plot mapping, significant research trends were identified on security threats and attacks, machine learning approaches, datasets usage, and evaluation metrics. The SMR result demonstrates the rise in the number of investigations regarding malware and unauthorized access to existing security threats and attacks. The SMR study indicates that supervised learning approaches such as SVM, DT, and RF are the most employed learning model by the previous research. Thus, there is an open research issue in the application of unsupervised learning approaches such as clustering and deep learning approaches. Therefore, the SMR has set the pace for creating new ground research in the machine learning implementation in the BYOD environment, which will offer invaluable insight into the study field, and researchers can employ it to find a research gap in the research domain.

Advancement of communication technologies and smart devices in the recent times is leading to changes into the integrated wired and wireless communication environments. Since early days, businesses had started introducing environments for mobile device application to their operations in order to improve productivity (efficiency) and the closed corporate environment gradually shifted to an open structure. Recently, individual user's interest in working environment using mobile devices has increased and a new corporate working environment under the concept of BYOD is drawing attention. BYOD (bring your own device) is a concept where individuals bring in and use their own devices in business activities. Through BYOD, businesses can anticipate improved productivity (efficiency) and also a reduction in the cost of purchasing devices. However, as a result of security threats caused by frequent loss and theft of personal devices and corporate data leaks due to low security, companies are reluctant about adopting BYOD system. In addition, without considerations to diverse devices and connection environments, there are limitations in detecting abnormal behaviors such as information leaks which use the existing network-based security equipment. This study suggests a method to detect abnormal behaviors according to individual behavioral patterns, rather than the existing signature-based malicious behavior detection and discusses applications of this method in BYOD environment.

Introduction: Bring your own device (BYOD) is a paradigm where employees use personal devices for organizational related activities. Various benefits accrued by both employees and organization. However, BYOD leads to risks and threats during their usage.
 Purpose: The paper aimed at exploring benefits, risks, and suggested controls based on a systematic review of literature.
 Methodology: A systematic review methodology was adopted for the study. A search using keywords was conducted to select peer-reviewed journal papers from 2010 to 2020 in ACM Digital Library, Emerald Insight, IEEE Explorer, Science Direct, and Taylor and Francis. Inclusion and exclusion criteria was applied, followed by quality appraisal on the selected articles, and then the data was extracted.
 Results: According to the search results, BYOD research is on the rise. Benefits, risks, and controls associated with BYOD were also identified based on a layered approach. Findings indicate that user management is the weakest layer.
 Originality/value: This paper adds to previous research on BYOD practices by highlighting key risks and suggesting practices that organizations can use to manage security and privacy risks in BYOD environments using a layered approach.

: The term BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) refers to the use of employees' personal devices (for example smartphones, tablets, laptops, netbooks) to do their work and manage corporate data from anywhere at any time. BYOD has been widely applied in the business world, hospitals, and education. With the ease that can be achieved by using BYOD, the security aspect is very important to consider. It starts with the security of the device to the security of company data that can be accessed by employees. Five dimensions of security control that must be considered in implementing BYOD: 1) data control; 2) access control; 3) network access control; 4) device management; 5) create a supporting framework. With the five BYOD implementation solutions presented in this study, there is only one solution that accommodates the five dimensions of BYOD security control, the use of Mobile Device Management (MDM) technology.

Information flow has increased significantly due to globalization and technological advancement, which has resulted in Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). This phenomenon has necessitated all sectors to adapt to the changes and align themselves with technology in order to maximize the benefits. The banking sector, in particular, has been at the forefront of the adoption of BYOD. However, this adoption of BYOD makes the banking sector vulnerable to various security threats. Ofusori, Dlamini, and Prabhakar (2018) classified these threats within technical, social and mobility domains. This article focuses on and investigates the influence of threats related to technical and mobility domains within a BYOD environment. Data were collected from employees of four banks in Nigeria to assess individual practices. The study found threats that overlap both technical and mobility domains and the existing security measures were found to be inadequate to alleviate those overlapping threats. As a result, this study recommends possible solutions to limit these security threats. In addition, this study contributes to the current theoretical perspectives concerning the use of mobile devices, therefore contributing to the existing body of knowledge regarding security threats for banks.

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is a business policy that provides flexibility and productivity to the employees of the companies, organizations, or establishments that adopt it. In this work, a study was carried out to know the formal use of personal mobile devices for work activities, using collection techniques such as surveys and interviews. In this sense, it was analyzed whether or not people officially use BYOD. The main results showed that a significant number of workers use the trend informally from their smartphone, while others are not using it, but they have the availability to do so. Finally, it is proposed to develop an action plan that helps use Bring Your Own Device with adequate data protection and mitigation in the loss of information.

ABSTRACTThe current method of attendance recording can be done in various way. Ranging from conventional method that using a piece of paper, or more advanced technology such as finger print, face recognition, retina, RFID and using a QR Code. From several choices of attendance system methods, especially for recording student attendance, QR Code offers a cheap and effective solution. This is possible thanks to the use of smart phones that have become common needs, students bring their own ponsel pintar or known as Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). In this study, the camera feature is used to record attendance using the QR Code (Quick Response Code). The QR Code feature has become a hot topic especially in terms of dynamic publication of URL links such as payment transactions, login processes and attendance systems. By combining the QR Code and BYOD methods, it is expected that the attendance system can be done more cheaply and accurately compared to other methods. So that the attendance process becomes faster and more precise. This study also discusses more deeply the comparison of attendance methods and the attendance prototype design using the QR Code and BYOD.Keywords: Attendance Information System, Quick Response Code, BYOD.ABSTRAKProses absensi saat ini dapat dilakukan dengan berbagai cara, mulai dari absen secara manual dengan menggunakan kertas, secara system dengan menggunakan finger print, face recognition, retina, menggunakan kartu RFID dan yang terbaru dengan menggunakan QR Code. Dari beberapa pilihan metode system absensi, terutama untuk system absensi mahasiswa di sebuah perguruan tinggi, QR Code merupakan pilihan tepat dan murah karena saat mahasiswa memiliki ponsel pintar dan mereka membawa sendiri ponsel pintarnya atau dikenal dengan istilah Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). Pada penelitian ini fitur kamera dimanfaatkan untuk melakukan pencatatan kehadiran dengan menggunakan QR Code(Quick Response Code). Fitur QR Code telah menjadi topik hangat terutama dalam hal publikasi dinamis tautan URL such as transaksi pembayaran, proses login dan system absensi. Dengan penggabungan metode QR Code dan BYOD maka diharapkan system absensi dapat dilakukan dengan lebih murah dan akurat dibandingan dengan metode lainnya. Sehingga proses absensi menjadi lebih cepat dan tepat. Pada penelitian juga dibahas lebih dalam mengenai perbandingan metode-metode absensi dan rancang bangun prototype system absensi dengan menggunakan QR Code dan BYOD.Kata Kunci : Sistem Informasi Kehadiran, Quick Response Code, BYOD.

Despite that BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) technology model has been increasingly adopted in education, few studies have been reported on how to integrate various apps on BYOD into inquiry-based pedagogical practices in primary schools. This article reports a case study, examining what apps on BYOD can help students enhance their science learning, and how students develop their science knowledge in a seamless inquiry-based learning environment supported by these apps. A variety of qualitative data were collected and analyzed. The findings show that the affordances of the apps on BYOD could help students improve their science knowledge without time and place constraints and gain a better sense of ownership in learning.

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) as reversed IT adoption: Insights into managers’ coping strategies

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) refers to the provision and use of personal mobile devices by employees for both private and business purposes. Although there has been research on BYOD, little attention has been paid to employees' perception of threats to their personal information security (ISS) when using a BYOD, especially in a professional context. This article investigates employee coping strategies related to BYOD ISS threats in France. The results of a survey of 223 employees indicate that while perceived behavioral control exerts only direct effects on problem-focused (i.e., disturbance handling) and emotion-focused (i.e., self-preservation) coping strategies, ISS concern exhibits significant direct and moderating influences. Several security paradoxes could be identified, namely, discrepancies between the respondents' ISS concern and the adopted coping strategies. This article offers the first insights into the French context and can serve as a basis for comparisons in future research and to help improve employees' personal ISS in the professional context.

In the new electronic era, the increasing amounts of various resources make it more difficult to use information at workplace. Bring your own device (BYOD) makes employee in the business organization to handle these various information resources in the fashion way. BYOD, such as notebook and smart phone at work has become the usual and normal trend in the workplace. People deal their daily job with these devices. Trends such as the influx of workers' own devices into the workplace will require more flexible and creative management style in order to maintain the performance as usual. This study examined the theoretical framework guiding research on work design and psychological climate, consider context of BYOD, and evaluate evidence on the processes assumed to underlie these associations. The results provide support that psychological meaningfulness has significant influence on psychological safety which will positively contribute to job performance. Information processing positively contribute to psychological meaningfulness, while work-life conflict will sabotage the formation of psychological meaningfulness. Interaction outside organization is significantly related to psychological safety, while life-work conflict has a negative effect. The findings reveal that BYOD provides opportunities for employees to redefine their work. Instead of passively taking the work, employees can proactively determine the method and process of work with the BYOD.