5 trends in BYOD

Blog post have been written about all of these trends and concerns in this column, but now I have found a third-party survey that includes more than 1,600 respondents to back up my assertions.
Companies want employees to be happy, and BYOD is part of that rationale.  With 55% of the respondents stating that the top reason for implementing a BYOD program is employee satisfaction. A very close second is the need for increased employee mobility at 54%, and third, at 51%, is increased employee productivity.

 "Employee satisfaction is the number one reason why companies
implement BYOD programs."

One thing to note about employee "mobility" is that this new found mobility also tethers you to your job in a way that has never happened before. Even in the days of pagers, there was more freedom, because communication was one way. And pagers were somewhat unreliable, so you could always say that you didn't receive the page or that you were in a "dead" spot. It did happen, but not as often as we all claimed.


The results are in from a survey taken by Holger Schulze's Information Security Community group on LinkedIn*. There are a few surprises and a few "I already knew that"s in the report, but it's good to see them both down on paper, anyway. Being taken from an information security group, you'd expect that security is the highest priority topic, and it is. But do you know what the greatest impact is to business due to mobile security threats?

5 top trends/concerns in mobile and BYOD security

1. Greater employee satisfaction and productivity
2. Data loss and unauthorized access to data
3. Encryption is the most used risk control measure
4. The biggest impact of mobile security threats is the need for additional IT resources to manage them
5. The most popular business apps are email, calendar, and contact management, and Apple (iOS) is the most popular BYOD platform.