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Chapter 10
Security Implications of
BringYour Own Device,
ITConsumerization, and
Managing User Choices
Sandy Bacik
Bring your own device (BYOD) or bring your own technology (BYOT), two of the newer acro-
nyms within information technology (IT) has unleashed the age of IT consumerization. With the
proliferation of various types of mobile devices and the consumerization of IT, corporate networks
are becoming more challenging to manage and are more at-risk every day. e days of a static,
one-size-fits-all policy applied to company-owned assets are over. Today, information security
needs to understand what devices are trying to connect to their ...