BYOD security issues: a systematic literature review

ABSTRACT Organizations are exposed to new security risks when they allow employees’ personal mobile devices to access the network and the corporate data (a phenomenon called ‘Bring Your Own Device’ or BYOD). They are confronted with inherent security issues that need to be addressed in order to protect the organization and its information. What are the security issues and considerations associated with BYOD environments? With this in mind, the objective of this paper is to present a systematic literature review of scholarly literature (2010–2019) with respect to BYOD security, and to suggest a classification scheme that depicts a holistic approach to securing BYOD environments. The results of this review include the analysis of 38 scholarly articles, where 22 security issues were identified. Based on the proposed classification scheme, the analysis of the findings shows that 86% of the articles identified security issues and considerations associated with the IT domain, 51% identified security issues related to the Management domain, 45% related to the Users domain, and 19% related to the Mobile Device domain. The results also show that BYOD security issues corresponding to policies are among the most frequently addressed concerns, followed by network security, data protection, user’s attitude/behavior and governance.