The consumerization of information technology (IT) has given rise to bring your own device (BYOD) phenomenon in which employees bring personally owned mobile devices to the workplace and connect them to the corporate network. The federal CIO council released a BYOD toolkit that includes three case studies of agencies that are implementing BYOD. Read “bring your own device – a toolkit to support federal agencies implementing bring your own device (BYOD) programs”,

Examine the three (3) case studies in the toolkit in terms of:

Policy implications

“Opt in” and “opt out” of government-provided devices.

Expenditure reduction by the federal government or state governments

Examine the support requirements for the employee devices.

Examine potential security risks, data breaches, and lost devices. Provide guidelines on how these risks could be mitigated.

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