Many organizations now take advantage
of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device), as employees are looking to utilize for work the
technology they already own at home. A recent study from vaoConsult
found that 90% of enterprises have employees
that use their mobile devices for corporate applications. Small businesses don’t typically have the
luxury of an IT staff to tailor network and server security to all of the individual
devices workers want to bring in, so you’ll need to consider the risks before
allowing such devices to access your small business data. We’ll detail some of
those risks here.