While most security professionals have come to embrace — or, at least, accept — bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies, leadership still often lacks confidence in the data security of employees’ personal phones, tablets and laptops.
In a recent study from Bitglass, 30 percent of the 400 IT experts surveyed were hesitant to adopt BYOD due to security concerns such as data leakage, shadow IT and unauthorized data access. As the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other data privacy mandates go into full swing, it’s more important than ever for organizations to monitor and protect enterprise data on mobile devices. However, BYOD may still be the Wild West of network access, especially given the rapid proliferation of new endpoints.
