1.1 Introduction
This concept of BYOD, which can increase employees' productivity and be cost-cutting for organizations (Wood, 2012), is defined as an environment in which employees use their personal device to access their organizational resources in order to perform everyday work tasks (PricewaterhouseCoopers, 2012; Walker-Osborn et al., 2013; Putri & Hovav, 2014). However, alongside noted benefits, BYOD also introduces many risks for the organisation; for example, loss of the device and weak credentials may weaken confidentiality, data leaks and malware attacks may compromise data consistency and potentially cause complete data loss (Lebek et al., 2013; Putri & Hovav, 2014; Berghaus & Back, 2014).
As a prelude to other parts of this study, this chapter will discuss the background upon which this study was initiated, the statement of problems that led to this study, the Aim and Objectives of the study. Others are Significance of the study, Scope of work, Limitations of the Study and Definition of technical terms.
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