A Review of Bring Your Own Device on Security Issues

Mobile computing has supplanted internet computing because of theproliferation of cloud-based applications and mobile devices (such as smartphones,palmtops, and tablets). As a result of this, workers bring their mobile devices to theworkplace and use them for enterprise work. The policy of allowing the employees to workwith their own personal mobile devices is called Bring Your Own Devices (BYOD). In thisarticle, we discuss BYOD’s background, prevalence, benefits, challenges, and possiblesecurity attacks. We then review contributions of academic researchers on BYOD. TheUniversiti Putra Malaysia online databases (such as IEEE Xplore digital library,Elsevier, Springer, ACM digital library) were used to search for peer-reviewed academicpublications and other relevant publications on BYOD. The Google Scholar search enginewas also used. Our thorough review shows that security issues comprise the mostsignificant challenge confronting BYOD policy and that very little has been done totackle this security challenge. It is our hope that this review will provide atheoretical background for future research and enable researchers to identifyresearchable areas of BYOD