BYOD And Data Protection – Incompatible Or Manageable?

Employers increasingly want to introduce BYOD to their companies. They typically expect three key effects from allowing BYOD: (i) cost efficiency, (ii) cost efficiency, and (iii) cost efficiency. However, BYOD means that a company must allow private devices to get linked to its data and databases. In other words: BYOD raises serious data protection concerns.

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is a smart solution. It allows employers to assign the company's device management to its employees and by doing so, to save manpower and costs on device support and maintenance. Yet there is a flip side of the coin: BYOD involves an employer allowing its employees to directly link their private devices to the company's (secure) IT environment and to access (sometimes sensitive) company data through their private devices.