Security News > 2023 > April > BYOD and personal apps: A recipe for data breaches

For SlashNext's The Mobile BYOD Intelligence Report, the company surveyed 300 individuals about the use of personal devices for work, how employers balance security and employee privacy with the popularity of Bring Your Own Device, and the resulting gaps in cybersecurity.

Right off the bat, the survey found that the use of personal devices for work has been increasing.

Figure A. The survey also revealed that 85% of employers require work-related apps to be installed on their employees' personal devices.

89% of them said that they have legal concerns about having access to the private data of employees.

Possible solutions to these BYOD security challenges.

With many threats targeting mobile devices, 81% of security pros believe that security and privacy issues can be addressed by giving employees a separate phone just for work.

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