Bring Your Own Device Research Articles

Digitizing distance learning materials: Measuring students’ readiness and intended challenges

This study sought to explore distance education students’ readiness to use digital learning materials from a College of Distance Education programme which was in the process of transforming the face to face approach of delivery to a more digitized one in Ghana. Using a descriptive survey design, 400 distance learning students were randomly sampled to respond to a 14-item questionnaire. However, 306 students duly responded and completed the questionnaire on their readiness to use digital tools, their access to digital technologies and the internet as well as challenges they envisage to confront in using digitized learning materials. The results revealed that majority of the students affirmed their readiness to use digital learning materials for learning. While respondents of the study did not report high access levels of some digital technologies such as tablets/iPad, desktop computers and laptops, majority of the students had personal access to smartphones with internet capabilities. Thus, the study highlights the potential of mobile phone device usage in distance learning and contends that in the midst of challenges bothering on access levels and high cost of internet, distance education institutions can operate the policy on bring-your-own-device (BYOD) in which distance learners make use of their personally owned devices to access digital content to support their learning.

Security Challenges and Cyber Forensic Ecosystem in IoT Driven BYOD Environment

The usage of Internet of Things (IoT)/ Bring Your Own Devices (BYOD) has grown up exponentially, as expected 50 Billion IoT devices will get connected by the end of 2020 in the world in smart city environment. Advancement of Human Driven Edge Computing (HEC) with 5th Generation Internet services also makes this more feasible. Use of IoT and increased demand of BYOD becomes one of the fundamental needs to increase the organization employee productivity and business agility. But it increased the significant risk of the cyber-attack which is leading a major reason for business disruption and becomes a leading question about how to get a cyber secured citizenship in the smart city environment as well as in the organization where BYOD is used in large numbers. In order to conduct forensic investigation post incident detection of malicious activities from IoT/BYOD end point is most challenging task. A strategic practical approach in this research is presented to detect malicious activities so that organization can adopt to protect the critical infrastructure and smart city critical infrastructure. In order to achieve the goal of detecting of malicious activities in BYOD environment, simulation performed in 3 phases. The 1st phase of the simulation performed while BYOD endpoint was outside the organization over the internet without VPN. The 2nd phase of the simulation was performed where BYOD endpoint was securely onboarded using a corporate wireless network with a secured onboarding process. The 3rd phase of the test done where IoT/BYOD was outside the organization with a VPN. A unique robust scalable model puts forward with significant result from this research and concluded for creating a cyber forensic ecosystem in IoT/BYOD environment to enable cyber secured citizenship in era of HEC with 5G and IoT.

VMobiDesk: Desktop Virtualization for Mobile Operating Systems

Smart mobile devices have significantly increased the popularity of Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) at work, as they benefit people’s daily lives. However, BYOD comes with several challenging issues such as limited hardware capacity, frequent upgrades of applications, and security and privacy concerns. Virtual Mobile Infrastructure (VMI), a general framework that provides more reliable and secure solution for BYOD, has therefore been proposed. The key of VMI is to host a mobile Operating System (OS) on a remote cloud data center, and run mobile applications on it. However, VMI faces performance challenge as it needs to display the entire virtualized desktop on a mobile device while the real content of the desktop is on a remote server. To address the performance challenge, we design and implement a VMI named vMobiDesk on top of Android with optimized network transfer mechanisms and display virtualization. In particular, vMobiDesk focuses on virtualizing the display of Android desktops, redirecting users’ input events, providing audio support and remote camera. The experimental results show that vMobiDesk has low virtualization overhead, as well as enables mobile users to obtain good experiences with BYOD applications.

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The overwhelming growth of mobile devices has created new challenges of providing access to online content in mobile-accessible formats and providing opportunities to learn anytime and anywhere and also facilitate the practice of bring your own device (BYOD) and accessing library resources The primary purpose of the study discussed in the present article was first to understand the problems of users they face due to the unavailability of mobile-based library services and then figure out user perception of how to enhance the existing library services to mobile-based library services. The findings of the study show that all the surveyed universities/institutions are yet to exploit the full potential of mobile technology. By contrast, other universities/institutions in developed countries are advancing in terms of providing information access/retrieval to the library users through mobile devices. Therefore, considering the possibility of fast information access, mobile computing provides myriad opportunities for libraries to provide access anytime and anywhere. The responses collected indicate that the respondents are willing to access library services through their mobile devices. The study is significant because it represents one of the earliest works to shed light on the current level of use of mobile technology and mobile-based library services in university libraries, which are in primitive nature. The findings of the study can provide guidance to the students, research scholars, faculty members, and others to identify popular mobile library services and access them on the go. The study also provides some practical suggestions for the studied institutions and their libraries to enhance the existing library services into mobile-based library services so that they can be accessed through mobile devices based on the perception of respondents.

Primena koncepta BYOD-Bring Your Own Device (donesi svoj sopstveni uređaj) u industriji i obrazovanju - implikacije za promenu prakse univerziteta

With the development of mobile technology emerge fundamental changes in all spheres of human endeavor. In education, new methods of remote studying are being developed, with a particular emphasis on "m-learning" (learning with the help of mobile devices). Taking into consideration that mobile devices are one of the fastest-developing forms of technology, the importance of their assistance in the process of teaching and studying has been recognized. The goal of this paper is to introduce the concept of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) in the context of industry and education as an example of disruptive technology. This concept implies that students bring their own mobile devices to the classroom and use them when learning. Using a descriptive research method and analysis of the relevant bibliography, the authors of the paper distinguish the implications for the change of university practices on the basis of critical analysis of positive and negative consequences of their use, redefined positions of the teachers and the students in the educational process, as well as the modified educational design.

PEMILIHAN SOLUSI PENERAPAN BRING YOUR OWN DEVICE (BYOD) BERDASARKAN KONTROL KEAMANANNYA

Abstract : The term BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) refers to the use of employees' personal devices (for example smartphones, tablets, laptops, netbooks) to do their work and manage corporate data from anywhere at any time. BYOD has been widely applied in the business world, hospitals, and education. With the ease that can be achieved by using BYOD, the security aspect is very important to consider. It starts with the security of the device to the security of company data that can be accessed by employees. Five dimensions of security control that must be considered in implementing BYOD: 1) data control; 2) access control; 3) network access control; 4) device management; 5) create a supporting framework. With the five BYOD implementation solutions presented in this study, there is only one solution that accommodates the five dimensions of BYOD security control, the use of Mobile Device Management (MDM) technology.

Implementing Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Model in Flipped Learning: Advantages and Challenges

Flipped learning is a type of blended learning that reverses traditional conceptions about pre-class and in-class activities. This pedagogical approach offers students the opportunity to exert more control over their learning. However, teachers should monitor whether in-class activities deepen pre-learning. In this paper, we present students’ experiences regarding the advantages, challenges and future preferences of using BYOD in flipped learning. According to students, being allowed to use their own devices in classroom activities provided them a more comfortable learning environment. The model increased their productivity because they were familiar with their personal devices. Students reported that the BYOD model made storing and retrieving files easier, which enabled them to continue studying without remembering settings. However, students identified challenges, such as being required to carry heavy devices and dealing with poor classroom infrastructure. A few students decided they would rather not bring their own devices again due to weight, but the others indicated that they would prefer to participate in BYOD-embedded flipped learning in the future.

Employees’ behavioural intention to smartphone security: A gender-based, cross-national study

Despite the benefits of bring your own device (BYOD) programmes, they are considered one of the top security risks companies are facing. Furthermore, there is a gap in the literature in understanding gender differences in employees' smartphone security behavioural intention. This research analyses gender differences in smartphone security behavioural intention among employees in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the United States (US). The research develops a new model, the behavioural model of cybersecurity (BMS), based on a combination of the protection motivation theory (PMT), the general deterrence theory (GDT) and Hofstede's cultural dimensions. A questionnaire was distributed to employees in both countries. A total of 1156 useable responses were analysed using partial least squares-structural equation modelling. The findings show that gender differences exist, but neither male nor female employees in either country are aware of the risks associated with their use of smartphones, despite their awareness of the existence of their company's BYOD security policies. The research provides theoretical and practical contributions by developing a new model combining the PMT, GDT and Hofstede's cultural dimensions and suggests gender differences in employees' smartphone security behavioural intention in a cross-national context. It has several practical implications for practitioners and policymakers.

MUIT: A Domain-Specific Language and its Middleware for Adaptive Mobile Web-Based User Interfaces in WS-BPEL

In enterprise organizations, the Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) requirement has become prevalent as employees use their own mobile devices to process the workflow-oriented tasks. Consequently, it calls for approaches that can quickly develop and integrate mobile user interactions into existing business processes, and adapt to various contexts. However, designing, developing, and deploying adaptive and mobile-oriented user interfaces for existing process engines are non-trivial, and require significant systematic efforts. To address this issue, we present a novel middleware-based approach, called MUIT, to developing and deploying the Mobility, User Interactions and Tasks into WS-BPEL engines. MUIT provides a Domain-Specific Language (DSL) that provides some intuitive facilities to support the declarative development of adaptive, mobile-oriented, and Web-based user interfaces in WS-BPEL. The DSL can significantly reduce developers' manual efforts of developing user interactions by preventing arbitrarily mixed code, and its runtime supports satisfactory user experiences. Additionally, MUIT can be seamlessly integrated into WS-BPEL without intrusions of existing process instances. We implement a proof-of-concept prototype by integrating MUIT into the commodity WS-BPEL-based Apusic Platform, and evaluate the performance and usability of MUIT platform.

Cryptomining Cannot Change Its Spots: Detecting Covert Cryptomining Using Magnetic Side-Channel

With new cryptocurrencies being frequently introduced to the market, the demand for cryptomining - a fundamental operation associated with most of the cryptocurrencies - has initiated a new stream of earning financial gains. The cost associated with the lucrative cryptomining has driven general masses to unethically mine cryptocurrencies using “plundered” resources in the public organizations ( e.g., universities) as well as in the corporate sector that follows Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) culture. Such exploitation of the resources causes financial detriment to the affected organizations, which often discover the abuse when the damage has already been done. In this paper, we present a novel approach that leverages magnetic side-channel to detect covert cryptomining. Our proposed approach works even when the examiner does not have login-access or root-privileges on the suspect device. It merely requires the physical proximity of the examiner and a magnetic sensor, which is often available on smartphones. The fundamental idea of our approach is to profile the magnetic field emission of a processor for the set of available mining algorithms. We built a complete implementation of our system using advanced machine learning techniques. In our experiments, we included all the cryptocurrencies supported by the top-10 mining pools, which collectively comprise the largest share (84% during Q3 2018) of the cryptomining market. Moreover, we tested our methodology primarily on two different laptops. By using the data recorded from the magnetometer of an ordinary smartphone, our classifier achieved an average precision of over 88% and an average F1 score of 87%. Apart from our primary goal - which is to identify covert cryptomining - we also performed four additional experiments to further evaluate our approach. We found that due to its underlying design, our system is future-ready and can readily adapt even to zero-day cryptocurrencies.

Improving compliance with bluetooth device detection

The number of devices containing Bluetooth chipsets is continuing to rise and there exists a need to stem the tidal wave of vulnerabilities brought by the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and Internet of Things (IoT) phenomena. With Bluetooth enabled but discovery mode turned off, auditing for Bluetooth devices, or creating an accurate Bluetooth device hardware log is limited. The software tools and hardware devices to monitor WiFi networking signals have long been a part of the security auditor’s arsenal, but similar tools for Bluetooth are bespoke, expensive, and not adopted by most security pentesters. However, this has changed with the introduction of the Ubertooth One, a low-cost and open-source platform for monitoring Bluetooth Classic signals. Using a combination of the Ubertooth One, and other high-power Bluetooth devices, an auditor should now be able to actively scan for rogue devices that may otherwise have been missed. This research examines various hardware combinations that can be used to achieve this functionality, and the possible implications from a compliance point of view, with a focus on the standards used by the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS), and the guidelines offered by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). We compare the results of scanning with traditional Bluetooth devices as opposed to an Ubertooth/Bluetooth combination. We show how the ability to monitor a larger portion of Bluetooth traffic can highlight serious implications in the compliance landscape of many organisations and companies. We demonstrate that identifying non-discoverable devices with Bluetooth enabled is a crucial element in holistic security monitoring of threats.

A Structural Equation Model to Assess the Factors Influencing Employee’s Attitude & Intention to Adopt BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is an emerging trend whereby employees are allowed to use their own mobile devices to access organizational data from anywhere and anytime. It helps increasing employee productivity and reducing capital cost for the organization. To formalize and implement BYOD policy, it is imperative to understand the employee’s attitude and intention since the success of this policy highly depends on their attitude and intention. Therefore, this study proposes an insight on the factors influencing employees’ attitude towards BYOD & their intentions to use their own devices for organizational purpose. A research model have been developed based on Technology Acceptance Model(TAM) which is tested for reliability and validity through Structured Equation Modeling using sample collected from 332 employees. The results of this study indicate that decision by employees to adopt BYOD is indeed a complex interplay of a number of variables and while some of them may affect attitude towards BYOD they may not have a positive effect on intention to adopt BYOD. The study also brings forward several implications which can be a valuable reference for practitioners and other researchers.

A Perceptional Analysis of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) for Educational or Workplace Implementations in a South Korean Case

As the communication and information technologies (especially mobile devices) have become a central part of our daily lives, people have started bringing their own devices to schools, universities, companies and other types of organization. With the difficulty of stopping people from carrying these devices, Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) represents a paradigm shift, presenting new ways for organizations to function and offering several advantages to businesses, notably a reduction in hardware costs. Although BYOD (allowing people to bring their technological devices to schools or workplaces) sounds simple in words, BYOD implementations come with their own challenges (security related problems at first). This study aims to analyze the perceptions of a group of South Korean undergraduate and master students (n=110 in total) about BYOD implementations in schools and in workplace separately. The study instrument had three sections; (i) basic demographics (age, gender and currently attending education level), (ii) 12 survey items on a Likert scale for BYOD perception at school questions, and (iii) 12 survey items on a Likert scale for BYOD perception at workplace questions. After the analyses of demographics, separate independent sample t-tests were applied in order to check if each set of 12 items for BYOD at school and at workplace significantly differ for gender and education level variables. While no significant difference was revealed based on gender variable, education level demonstrated differences on certain items. At the end, the 12 items for BYOD at school and BYOD at workplace were compared by applying paired samples t-tests to the dataset where significant differences were also observed for some items. The general results showed that participants supported BYOD in schools more than BYOD at workplace. Besides, master students showed more trust than undergraduate students on cyber-security both at school and at workplace.

A Perceptional Analysis of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) for Educational or Workplace Implementations in a South Korean Case

A Perceptional Analysis of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) for Educational or Workplace Implementations in a South Korean Case

Bring Your Own Device in Healthcare

Bring your own device (BYOD) policies have become a very popular topic in information technology, as this approach allows employees to bring their devices into their organizations and use them to access information. This trend has some benefits both for the organization and to employees. This paper aims to identify those benefits as well as the advantages and disadvantages of BYOD usage in organizations. In addition, SWOT analysis of BYOD usage is presented and discussed. Finally, it is introduced as an approach to BYOD in healthcare. Utilizing personal devices at work is beneficial to organizational employees as they are in some way satisfied, and they have more freedom and choice to use their devices. This can easily lead the employees to be more productive and flexible. Organizations who embrace BYOD policies have noticed that their employees are happier, more productive, and more collaborative.

“Bring your own device” policies: Perspectives of both employees and organizations

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policy, which allows employees to use their own mobile devices for work and connection to their corporate network, is getting popular in enterprises. While companies want to improve the efficiency and productivity of employees, employees prefer to use their own devices at work, which make them feel more comfortable and free. Although BYOD seems attractive, companies and employees have some security concerns in different and various ways. The aim of this study is to explore employee and organization perspectives about BYOD. Empirical part of the research has two parts: Qualitative and quantitative. Manager’s opinions were determined through a series of interviews and then the findings were analyzed. In quantitative part, a questionnaire has been developed based on the literature review and qualitative findings. 12 interviews and 93 surveys were used in the analysis. It has been found that while organizations and employees percept BYOD as having benefits in many ways, their security and privacy concern is a strong barrier on the implementation of BYOD policy.

<i>Bring your own device</i> (BYOD): entendendo uma nova prática no ambiente acadêmico

Este artigo identifica os fatores percebidos a partir da prática de BYOD no contexto acadêmico. A popularização dos dispositivos móveis gerou um movimento do uso desses dispositivos pessoais no ambiente de trabalho. Esse fenômeno passou a ser conhecido como Bring your own device (BYOD). Esta prática chegou às instituições de ensino e envolve diversas discussões entre professores e estudantes. Não se sabe ao certo se o uso de dispositivos ajuda ou atrapalha o andamento das aulas e o processo de aprendizagem. Para entender esse fenômeno, realizamos entrevistas semiestruturadas com professores e alunos universitários. Inspirados na Grounded theory, desenhamos um modelo teórico que emergiu da análise dos dados. Esse modelo demonstra que a prática do BYOD no contexto acadêmico é determinada por fatores impulsionadores, de contexto e da prática. Os diversos fatores identificados no contexto acadêmico trazem resultados práticos, como a influência no processo de aprendizagem e a exposição ao aumento de jornada de trabalho. Os fatores da prática compreendem oito elementos: 1) interesse; 2) didática; 3) processo de aprendizagem; 4) ubiquidade; 5) produtividade; 6) responsabilidade; 7) padrões de uso; e 8) exposição. Este fenômeno pode estar relacionado ao contexto da sociedade e à modernidade tecnológica.

Security risk analysis of bring your own device system in manufacturing company at Tangerang

Nowadays information system has become popular used for help effectiveness and efficiency operation on a company. Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) system is a growing trend in corporate environment, where employees could access the system from anywhere. BYOD system is system information development using some technology like a Virtual Private Networks (VPN) or using some application to make the client on outside network office can access to inside networks with remote system. The remote system has strength to help employees working anywhere and anytime, that could make some issue for a security thing. The security issue that can be happen is unauthorized access and lost some important of company information. XYZ company as a manufacturing company in Tangerang, Indonesia has been used BYOD system in their company. They want to improve the security of the system with do risk analysis, with the aim to protect the internal data. The risk analysis use Cybersecurity Framework NIST will assist organizations to understand the risk of BYOD system. The analysist results obtained by the use of cybersecurity analysis on BYOD system in XYZ company are found some improvement need to develop in terms of security system recommended. According to the stages of respond with the analysis using Cybersecurity NIST framework and ISO/IEC 27002:2013.

Role of Perceived Value in Acceptance of “Bring Your Own Device” Policy

IT consumerization refers to the phenomenon of using personal devices and applications for work-related tasks. Considered as a major wave of employee-driven innovation, many organizations have adopted IT consumerization to reap its benefits. Bring-your-own-device (BYOD) is a major form of IT consumerization. This study examines the perceptions of BYOD among business students and professionals. Utilizing a perceived value approach, a survey was designed to examine how the benefits and sacrifices of BYOD influence its perceived value. Through survey data collected from 217 business students and 200 full time working professionals, the study finds that job flexibility control, technology empowerment, and enjoyment are positively related to the perceived value of BYOD.

Facing the mobile revolution: A Romanian insight

Research question: Are the accounting graduates prepared to deal with mobile devices’ security issues? Motivation: Nowadays, mobile computing is a part of the younger generation, the entering workforce in coming years, and from this point of view the BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) approach will continue its increasing trend. The authors investigated the accounting bachelors’ knowledge in regard with mobile devices’ use aiming at signaling the existing gap on mobile devices’ security awareness. IT security specialists consider that both, academia and industry should focus their security awareness campaigns aiming at combat the false sense of security that mobile devices’ users have. Idea: The authors aimed at providing an in-depth understanding of the accounting students’ profile as mobile devices’ users and their knowledge and awareness in regard with mobile security threats. Data: The analyzed sample includes 180 subjects, out of which 81% are bachelors in accounting (38% 1st year; 43% 3rd year) and 19% master students in accounting and banking. Tools: The literature review helped us in structuring our research objectives and design a multiple-choice questionnaire used in the empirical study. Findings: The study reflects the students’ insufficient information in regard with mobile devices features and security issues. This is the result of the limited IT lectures and seminars in the curriculum and the insufficient focus on mobile devices’ use in the accounting profession. Students should understand the mobile devices as complex devices providing diverse features, not limited to communication with friends and Internet information searching. Contribution: The study contributes towards closing the existing gap in the Romanian research and literature in regard with young generation insufficient knowledge on mobile devices’ security and the potential threat brought by BYOD on the companies’ IT environment.