BYOD

HEWIT/WHELF Gregynog Colloquium

Andrew Cormack
9 June 2013 at 8:57pm
BYOD
Privacy
I'll be speaking about "BYOD - Capabilities and Incentives" at the Gregynog Colloquium
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8 May 2013 at 8:08am

BYOD: About the Owners, not the Devices

Andrew Cormack
BYOD
The UCISA Networking Group’s conference BYOD: Responding to the Challenge looked at new developments in an area that has actually been an important part of Higher Education for at least fifteen years. Student residences have offered network sockets since the 1990s and staff have been using family PCs for out of hours work for at least as long.
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12 March 2013 at 11:14am

ICO Guide to BYOD

Andrew Cormack
BYOD
Data Protection Act
Privacy
The Information Commissioner has published helpful new guidance on how organisations can support the use of personally-owned devices for work, commonly known as Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). This appears to have been prompted by a survey suggesting that nearly half of employees use their own devices for work, but more than two thirds of them have no guidance from their employers.
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10 January 2013 at 12:24pm

ENISA Guide to Risk Mitigation for BYOD

Andrew Cormack
BYOD
Information Security
ENISA have published a useful set of controls and best practices for managing the risks in a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) program. They identify three groups of controls
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17 September 2012 at 9:15am

BYOD toolkit

Andrew Cormack
BYOD
Information Security
policies
The US Government’s CIO Council has published an excellent toolkit to help organisations develop appropriate policies for employees to use their own laptops and smartphones for work (known as Bring Your Own Device or BYOD). The toolkit identifies three different technical approaches to controlling the security of the organisation’s information:
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11 December 2012 at 11:15am

Understanding Threats to Mobile Computing

Andrew Cormack
BYOD
Information Security
An interesting talk by Ken van Wyk on threats to mobile devices at the FIRST/TF-CSIRT meeting last week. While it’s tempting to treat smartphones just as small-screen laptops (let’s face it, users do!) there are significant differences in the threats to which the two types of devices are exposed. These need to be recognised in any plan to secure the devices and the information they store and have access to.
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