- [Omar] Let's go over what is BYOD, right?
So BYOD stands for bring your own device.
And basically what it is is actually,
it's the ability to give your employees
to be able to actually work from anywhere
and work with anything, right?
So they can bring their own laptop,
or your own tablet, mobile device, and everything,
and be more productive, right?
So this also reduce the cost of an organization
of actually providing those devices
and managing those devices, right?
So many organizations have actually reduced the cost
of operations by actually allowing the employees
to be able to actually bring their tablet, right,
to a meeting room, and then be more productive, right?
Also increases collaboration among people, right?
So, again, this is actually something that perhaps,
you know, not a lot of companies are actually going back
and restricting that access.
You know, it all depends on your environment
and your corporate policy, right?
But that's one of the things, actually,
we have been seeing for the last, you know, decade or so
of more companies actually allowing their users
to bring their own device.
Now that, of course, increase the risk of, you know,
security, your security risk, and your security posture.
Why?
Because that tablet, or that phone, you know,
may actually have malware that may infect other systems,
let's say a server in your data center,
or actually other users, right,
that are using desktop machines that, perhaps,
you're actually, you know, managing in your network, right?
So we actually gonna be covering what is MDM
in a a different lesson, mobile device management, right?
But you know this is actually one of the main predicaments
of cybersecurity nowadays
of actually allowing employees actually bringing
those devices that perhaps actually they don't go
and patch those devices.
So there's a lot of solutions, of course,
in the industry to help mitigate that risk.
But it's definitely a risk nowadays in any corporation.