Avantages that leveraging BYOD offers to a business

PART 1: Imagine you are the manager of a software development team working on new applications for your company, Optimum Way Development, Inc. The Marketing department has asked you to create a blog post that they can post on the company website to promote one of the applications your team is developing. The audience for this blog post is non-technical potential customers. You asked one of your developers to draft the blog post, which you will then revise before sending it to the Marketing department. The developer has just sent you the draft of the blog post.

Prompt

Review the attached blog post and revise it so the blog post uses appropriate:

Style and tone

Inclusive language

Technical language/explanation

Writing mechanics (e.g., spelling, grammar, punctuation)

You will be modifying the actual blog post to create a final product that can be given to the Marketing department (i.e., you will be making the desired changes within the document, not providing editing comments).

Guidelines for Submission

To complete this activity, you must submit a blog post.

The final blog post must:

Be 400 to 500 words

Be submitted as a Word document or PDF

Completely address all of the requirements in the Prompt section

PART 2: Many IT departments have difficulty keeping up with rapid changes in technology. Often employees would prefer to use their own devices to access corporate data. Personal laptops, home computers, and employee-owned smartphones have seen a dramatic increase as devices used to connect to business systems and data. Some employers see the cost and performance benefits of allowing this type of access and are firmly embracing a BYOD approach. Some smaller companies are even requiring employees to provide their own computing equipment. However, many companies are concerned about supporting these devices and are worried about the multitude of security issues that BYOD introduces.

For this week’s discussion, think about how the “work from anywhere” expectations of both employers and employees impact the adoption of BYOD. Consider the advantages that this strategy offers individuals and businesses, as well as what disadvantages would be introduced. If you reference any internal or external resource, remember to cite your sources appropriately.

In your initial post, address the following:

What are the advantages that leveraging BYOD offers to a business?

What are the security risks that these devices pose to an organization?

Explain your approach to managing these devices in a secure way to prevent malware, avoid data leakage, and control access.

In response to two of your peers, build on each original poster’s claims, and answer the following:

Do you think the benefits of BYOD outweigh the drawbacks?

How else could the poster mitigate BYOD risks?