Bring Your Own Device

: what is it good for

Abstract

What is BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)? BYOD is a relatively new trend in which employees in a company has the opportunity to bring their own electronic devices such as Smartphones, Tablets and Laptops. On the Internet you can find some information about the phenomena BYOD and during our education some teachers has gone in to the subject loosely. This awoken a curiosity to dig deeper in the subject, because it seemed to be a trend in the rising. This is such a new phenomenon that many companies doesn’t know how to handle this in their network. The companies also has to reevaluate their security policies.