The proliferation of internet-enabled mobile devices combined with vast availability of cloud computing services have created a growing trend known as ‘Bring-Your-Own-Device’ (BYOD), which refers to policies that allow employees to connect their personal mobile devices to corporate networks. Research finds that BYOD can increase productivity, job satisfaction, and mobility of employees. However...

BYOD is a growing trend in corporate environments, where employees bring their own devices to work. Factors that have led to the growing popularity of BYOD include the benefits of work flexibility, increased productivity, and efficiency of employees. Despite these benefits, there are concerns over information security and privacy. Since BYOD allows employees to access organisational data anytim...

Information is a critically important asset that has been used for decades within organizations. Like any asset, there are threats to the information that impact processes such as; email retrieval and access to organizational system services. As a consequence of the threats, attention to the security of the information is important. Technology is utilized to secure information and the cost affi...

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 ...

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) enables employees to use their privately-owned devices for business purposes. There is an ongoing debate on the costs, benefits and potential threats of this concept amongst practitioners. Surprisingly, employees and their expectations and attitudes towards BYOD are rarely part of these discussions. Contributing to this research area, this study answers questions on...

This panel discussion covers the current status, issues, and future direction of the use and adoption of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). BYOD is widely used around the world. The invited panelists are five faculty members from the United States and Korea specializing in Information Systems. The covered topics include current use, real world cases, and adoption, pros and cons of BYOD adoption, iss...

BACKGROUND Rising rates of smartphone ownership highlight opportunities for improved mobile application usage in clinical trials. While current methods call for device provisioning, the "bring your own device" (BYOD) model permits participants to use personal phones allowing for improved patient engagement and lowered operational costs. However, more evidence is needed to demonstrate the BYOD m...

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is an emerging trend and practice that is growing in use in many organizations. There is however very limited literature on BYOD in the context of financial institutions from a developing country perspective. The dearth of such studies is problematic because financial institutions deal with a lot of sensitive and confidential information and therefore their adoption...

Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) is a trend introduced by a large IT corporation in 2009 realised as a consequence of the consumerization of Information Technology. BYOD is described as the phenomenon of using personal mobile devices connected to corporate networks to perform work. This study aims to understand consumerization of IT and BYOD in the Tertiary Education sector, particularly the contex...

The growing trend of BYOD in the higher education institutions creates a new form of student learning pedagogy in which students are able to use the mobile devices for their academic purposes in anywhere and anytime. Security threat in the paradigm of BYOD creates a great opportunity for hackers or attackers to find new attacks or vulnerabilities that could possibly exploit the students’ mobile...