New Security Perspectives around BYOD

The dramatic growth of cloud computing services and mobility trends, in terms of 3/4G availability and smart devices, is creating a new phenomenon called "Consumerization" that affects the consumers habits in all facets of the their life. Also during the working time people prefer to stay in their consumer environment because that's their comfort zone. A collateral phenomenon is called BYOD (Bring Your Own Device), that means the employees use their own devices also during their working time. These changing of habits represent an opportunity and a challenge for the enterprises. The opportunity is related to two main aspects: the productivity increase and the costs reduction. In a BYOD scenario the end users would pay totally or partially the devices and would work independently from time and location. On the opposite side, the new scenario bring some risks that could be critical. The use of devices for both personal and working activities opens to new security threats to face for IT organization. Also, the direct comparison between public cloud services for personal use and company's IT services could be a frustrating user experience, that's because of the public cloud services are often almost more effective and usable than typical IT company's services. The aim of this work is presenting a brief survey about the emerging methods and models to approach the BYOD phenomenon from the security point of view.