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The benefits and risks of a bring your own device (BYOD) strategy

Learn about the benefits and issues of supporting a BYOD environment for your mobile workforce, as well as practical tips on how to manage associated risks.

As employees embrace workplace mobility, mobile devices are becoming a treasure trove of corporate information, assets and intellectual property. CPAs in risk or oversight roles must help their businesses ensure proper security and control over that data. 

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Strategy for a Mobile Workforce: Technology Spotlight provides an overview of the benefits, issues and risk mitigation strategies for companies supporting BYOD for their employees.  

Key takeaways:  

  • how to leverage mobile device management solutions to manage policy, inventory and security of employees’ personally-owned devices 
  • how to implement an approved list of supported devices that employees can bring to work and clearly define the level of support provided for those devices 
  • how to develop corporate data classification controls and apply the corresponding protection mechanisms to the data on personally-owned devices