Sunday 14 July 2013
Whether
it is about an organization who is searching for the alternatives to get down
its capital expenditure on consistently buying new technology devices or it is
about a consumer or employee willing to bring their own personal devices to the
their workplace – BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) is getting momentum and there is
no doubt in it.
However,
being a small business owner, it becomes a daunting task to identify which
tools or solutions can help you manage the trend quite easily and smoothly. Of
course, security would be the major concern about the small businesses while
trying to cope up with this trend. Mobile Device Management (MDM) could be the
possible solution, but with a huge momentum of BYOD concept, the concept of
personal space on the device and a workspace is rapidly emerging these days.
With
each passing day, it is becoming more difficult for the IT departments within
the organizations to deal with the deployment of the enterprise mobility solutions India, monitor the usage, manage different mobile devices and prevent
the risks to the organization’s infrastructure and sensitive business
information or data. In such scenario, it is crucial to verify whether they
have enough resources and tools to address the issues that are arising while
keeping the business information intact or not.
Consider
the way security programs and applications are going to be deployed within an organization.
IT department will be assigned a task of updating and installing all such
programs on an individual basis. However, it may require a considerable amount
of resources and additional labor costs. But incorporating an automated system
will help employees to do their tasks without wasting more time. However, it
will require you to impose strict policies for the usage of the device.
Moreover, you will have to arrange a training session to educate the employees
about the security risks associated with it and how they can protect company
data.
Also,
tracking and monitoring employee compliance with the various security policies
of an organization could be a difficult task if the IT department doesn’t have
enough reach to the employee’s device. Mobile device management will empower IT
department to make sure the personal device usage integrates with the company
security policy without investing more of the IT resources.
However,
managing different devices available in the market could be a major pain point
for the organization, whether it’s a small, mid-sized or any giant
organization. Considering that point, it is important to ensure that you choose
the right kind of security solution that can easily tackle different mobile
devices and open source platform, and can be easily integrated with the
existing security applications.
You
can easily measure the benefit of the BYOD policy against the cost associated
with the tools, software, hardware, support and training required to prevent
the security threats and data loss.
Summarizing
this whole discussion will let you know that the trend of bringing personal
device within an organization would help you leverage from its benefits, but it
will also bring tons of other challenges to the small businesses. And the main
reason behind such challenges is lack of tools and resources. So, you can
consider BYOD as a BOON as well as BANE for the small businesses. What’s your
point of view on the rapidly emerging mobility trend? Share your views with us
by commenting below…!
