The security implications of BYOD

Take a second to picture the carefully groomed, meticulously chosen set of policies that govern the selection, purchase, use and audit of technology inside the average business. Now picture those guidelines being thrown out the window. Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) incorporates new devices into the enterprise outside of the process that IT normally follows for vetting, monitoring and auditing equipment for proper use. And it allows employees to dictate the technology they want to use. Brian Tokuyoshi of Palo Alto Networks shows how this use of personal devices highlights what happens when there's a conflict between usability and security, and how BYOD exposes pre-existing issues within organisations that may not have been receiving sufficient attention.