Charting Your Organization's Bring-Your-Own-Device Voyage

Organizations are increasingly adopting bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies. CIOs, however, remain concerned about the potential threats from personal devices and applications to the control and security of organizational IT assets. Based on in-depth case studies at Cisco, Wal-Mart and the Arkansas Department of Information Systems, the full article describes a four-wave model that describes the BYOD voyage an organization undertakes as its BYOD policy evolves. From these organizations’ experiences, we have identified four lessons that will help CIOs identify important BYOD issues at each wave and chart their own BYOD voyages.