Reference no: EM132421825

BYOD, Portable, and Mobile Devices organizational security policies.

The contemporary organizations have allowed their employees to carry and use their devices to work. This use of devices has had a negative and positive impact on the organizations concerned. Security issues are one of the demerits that come as a result of using these devices.

Therefore, security polices are required to give direction on the use of the devices.

The employee devices need strong policies that govern their use to ensure that they do not lead to any security issues. Thus, some consideration needs to be made. First, the organization needs to consider the security and privacy issues that might come with the use of the devices and plan on how they will ensure that they will not lead to privacy issues (Fennelly, 2012). Second, the organization should put in place policies regarding the management standard to monitor how each device is used within the premises. Third, there should be working policies regarding the safety of data on those devices. The fourth and last consideration is communication policies regarding their use.

The policy development might an easy task but the enforce might face some challenges which can render them ineffective. Workforce policy rejection is one of the issues that might affect the implementation of the policies. Secondly, the organization might lack the necessary resources and expertise to implement the policies. The third challenge is the communication issues that the concerned individual in the organization with the implementation of the policies might face due to changing requirements of the policies (Fennelly, 2012). The last challenges involve management and access of the information privileged to every device; their use might be a target to the criminals to access the organization data.