AssignmentIn response to two of your peers, build on each original poster’s claims, and answer the following:Do you think the benefits of BYOD outweigh the drawbacks?How else could the poster mitigate BYOD risks?POST # 1With the current prices of beneficial electronics many small businesses may find an issue supporting proper equipment to their employees. “Bring your own device” is an idea that is able to support the ability to utilize one’s own equipment while providing use towards a company. This option of course comes with multiple pros and cons on all sides. By allowing one to use their own equipment one is also limiting the amount of training a familiarity with the system. This can save hours of setup and allows a comfort level among the company employees and their own property. The ability to work on the go as well may assist towards the completion of assigned tasks while being able to complete work at flexible locations. Overall this setup can limit time that a company needs to invest towards equipment in a financial and operational mindset. But I believe that the possible issues may outweigh the benefits of BYOD option among employees. The largest issue that arises to my attention is the employee’s ability to maintain a professionalism while accessing valuable information. This requires a large trust in employees to stay off site that are high risk towards hacking or virus scenarios. One slip up by an employee has the risk of compromising an entire database of information. This situation also works hand in hand with one’s ability to ensure their virus and security protection is up to date or even properly installed in the first place. Although security is a push and play setup to many personal devices this requires a large amount of trust from the employer position. From an administrator standpoint in order to allowed for personal devices to be used a large amount of limitations and standards need to in place. By limiting the amount of freedom while accessing company information can assist towards proper protection. Weekly monitoring of logs towards each individuals’ actions would also be required to point out risky scenarios and produce lessons learned towards the future. Secure logins or PKI may also assist in the access of an individual’s devices in a scenario where equipment is lost or stolen. Lastly an inspection of each equipment being utilized virus/malware protection would be required to ensure all are up to date and at a standard that reflects the company’s expectations.POST # 2What are the advantages that leveraging BYOD offers to a business? Utilizing personal devices does come with several advantages. Firstly, it would save a business money to utilize employees own devices instead of having to buy new ones for each employee. Another advantage of note would be the accessibility. It would be easier for employees to navigate their personal devices set to their proffered settings than to use a standardized client. It may also be faster to give employees network access through their own devices. This can make working easier. What are the security risks that these devices pose to an organization? The first risk that I would think of is access breaches. Devices that have access to a business network will carry the potential of being lost or possible hacked if they aren’t well secured. If an employee loses their laptop or phone, it can become a liability to the integrity of the firms network. An access breach could lead to a data breach, if an employee’s device is breached, if it has any business a data on it, that data is now exposed to the hacker. Or a hacker may use the device to breach the business network. Another concern for using personal devices for work would be viruses or malware. If a device is not secured and gets infected, it may put the entire network at risk. Explain your approach to managing these devices in a secure way to prevent malware, avoid data leakage, and control access. My approach would be to limit the use of personal devices as much as possible. A device that isn’t ours, is out of our control and another possible security exploit. Any devices that will be used for work should only have access to non-critical data. And have to use passwords and two factor authentication. Additionally, they should also be registered with the IT desk so, in case of an incident, we will know what device are exposed and what they may have “touched” on the network. This would help prevent the further spread of malware. Lastly I would give BYOD employee's security protocols on how to responsibly use personal devices with the business network.