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hello everyone my name is vijay kumar Devireddy and i am glad to have you back on my episode 26 today we are discussing about Bring Your Own Device is a policy that a lot of organizations have been adopting.This means when you come to work,you can bring your own device, and use it on their network.This may be your laptop, your tablet, your cellphone,keyboards, mice, or any other type of device.Some organizations have fully adopted Bring Your Own Device,and others are fully against it.We're going to talk about both,and why you should consider it,or decide not to use it in your organization.Now, when you use Bring Your Own Device,it brings a lot of security issues for you to consider.If I have somebody's laptop that now gets plugged into my network,I'm also introducing all of the vulnerabilities that device had.So, if you took your laptop home,plugged it into your network, downloaded a game,installed the game, and got malware and now you plug it into work the next day,you can bring that malware into work with you.This is a major concern with Bring Your Own Device because as an organization, I don't control your device,and so I don't know the security of it.And, that's one of the major risks with Bring Your Own Device.Now, on the flip side, a lot of companies really like Bring Your Own Device because it means they don't have to buy laptops, and cellphones,and all those type of  devices for their employees because the employee is bringing their own.And, while that might save them money,and it's good for the bottom line, there are concerns.When the data goes on your device, who's data is it?Is it the company's data, or do you have rights to it?Where do you draw the line between what's personal data,and what's business data? A lot of organizations that have adopted Bring Your Own Device, will use storage segmentation.This will create a clear separation between personal,and company data on a single device.Now, there's lots of different ways to create this segmentation.There are highly technical solutions,and then there's highly procedural solutions.For example, you might have an application on your phone that says work, and when you click on that,it opens up a virtual environment, and all of your work is done from within there.And, when you exit that, you're now back into your personal device.That would be a clear technological limitation between the two.Now, you don't always have to use a highly technical solution.In my company, we're very small,we use personal devices as work devices,and so on my phone in particular, I have two email clients.I have one that's on Apple Mail that I use for my personal email, and then I have another one,which is Gmail, using the Gmail app that I use for my company email.That gives me a clear separation between my personal stuff,and my business stuff, and keeps them in separate buckets.Now, again, there's nothing really that would prevent me from loading up my business email inside Apple Mail if I wanted to.Except that we have a policy that says we won't do that.So, we've chosen an administrative control,as opposed to a technical control.Another concern you have with mobile devices under the Bring Your Own Device policy,is how do you ensure that device is always up to date?We talked about how important it is for patches,and updates to be installed on your mobile devices.I can push out software policies to you,prevent you from installing applications,and install updates remotely without your use.But, when I do Bring Your Own Device,are you going to let me install Mobile Device Management on your system?You might not.And, so this is why a lot of companies are now switching from a Bring Your Own Device,because of all those security issues,into a Choose Your Own Device, or CYOD model.CYOD gives the employee a choice of a couple of phones.We might have four, or five models that we support,and we say you can pick any one of these,and we'll pay for it for you. And Thankyou byebye