As organizations shift to permanent hybrid work environments, security leaders must weigh the benefits and challenges of a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) model.

Effectively securing an organization’s resources and data requires making user and device identity and access management the new focal point of security. Organizations will need to reconsider their security strategy once again to accommodate staff as they return to the office.

Given the growth of BYOD over the past year or so, security professionals must review their current endpoint security strategies.

Mobile devices are part and parcel of today’s increasingly distributed workforce. Laptops, smartphones, and tablets are provisioned by enterprises to increase employee productivity, while providing flexibility to work remotely. But when the pandemic struck, security teams across industries were challenged by the unprecedented speed and scale of the shift. This disruption created great strain for IT security teams. Pair that with the increase in employee BYOD devices, already-overworked IT teams raced to ensure only authorized devices could connect to corporate assets. 

A new study has found that nearly two in five workers admitted to clicking on a link or opening an attachment from a sender they did not recognize.