With the expansion of technology and the desire to downsize costs within the corporate culture, the technology trend has steered towards the integration of personally owned mobile devices (smartphones) within the corporate and enterprise environment. The movement, known as “Bring Your Own Device” (hereinafter referred to as “BYOD”), seeks to eliminate the need for two separate mobile devices fo...

BYOD, which allows employees to bring their own mobile devices to work and connect into the corporation network, has been increasingly implemented by numerous organizations and corporations. Companies expect to save cost as well as increase productivity and employees’ morale through BYOD implementation. Hence, it is critical for companies to understand how BYOD affects organizational performanc...

The concept of Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) describes the trend of employees using their private mobile devices to manage corporate data from anywhere at any time. BYOD can increase employees' productivity and be cost-cutting for organizations. To implement BYOD, organizations are dependent on employees’ acceptance of BYOD, because employees' participation usually is voluntary. As employees' ac...

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is an enterprise information technology (IT) policy that encourages employees to use their own devices to access sensitive corporate data at work through the enterprise IT infrastructure. Many current BYOD security practices are costly to implement and intrusive to employees, which, to some degree, negate BYOD’s perceived benefits. To address such tension, we propos...

The trend of bring your own device (BYOD) has been rapidly adopted by organizations. Despite the pros and cons of BYOD adoption, this trend is expected to inevitably keep increasing. Yet, BYOD has raised significant concerns about information system security as employees use their personal devices to access organizational resources. This study aims to examine employees' intention to comply with...

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is attracting considerable attention nowadays. In BYOD scenarios, enterprises wish to integrate their employees’ mobile devices in enterprise operations (e.g., reading emails, editing documents). This clearly raises serious security concerns since the mobile device in question is not under the control of the enterprise and is vulnerable to a wide range of security t...

Recently, the rapid adoption of smartphones and tablets among employees has forced organizations to proactively embrace the concept of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). Allowing employees to bring their own mobile devices to the workplace has blurred the boundary between work and personal life and therefore created a stressful environment for employees when they are performing both work role and fa...

IT consumerization or bring-your-own-device (BYOD) behavior, i.e., the use of private devices within organizational boundaries, is steadily increasing. Despite potential benefits, organizations are struggling to keep up with this development since a variety of risks, uncertainties, and potential costs are related to the use of private devices within the enterprise. Potential negative consequenc...

BYOD policies are informally specified using natural language. We show how the SP4BYOD language can help reduce ambiguity in 5 BYOD policies and link the specification of a BYOD policy to its implementation. Using a formalisation of the 5 policies written in SP4BYOD, we make comparisons between them, and explore the delegation relationships within them. We identify that whilst policy acknowledg...

BACKGROUND Hospitals today are introducing new mobile apps to improve patient care and workflow processes. Mobile device adoption by hospitals fits with present day technology behavior; however, requires a deeper look into hospital device policies and the impact on patients, staff, and technology development. Should hospitals spend thousands to millions of dollars to equip all personnel with a ...