Many cos bar people from bringing own mobile devices to work

NEW DELHI: Taking into account possible security risks, many Indian enterprises restrict employees from bringing their personal mobile devices to workplace, says a survey.

Non-profit group ISACA's global survey found that IT professionals in India continue to resist the Bring Your Own Device (BOYD) trend among employees.

"India stood first among its global counterparts in prohibiting BYOD, with nearly half (46 per cent) of Indian enterprises successfully deploying a BYOD policy to prohibit the use of personal mobile devices for work to mitigate the risk to the enterprise," it said.

The country was followed by Europe (39 per cent), China (30 per cent) and the US (29 per cent).

When it came to security controls for employees' personal devices, about 47 per cent of Indian enterprises reported deploying password management controls.

"India registered lower interest on remote wipe capability (29 per cent), which allows employers to erase the contents of an employee's personal device as a security measure, compared to US (46 per cent), China (39 per cent) and Europe (37 per cent)," the survey said.

Meanwhile, around 58 per cent of the Indian respondents said their enterprises prohibit access to social networking sites from a work-supplied device.

ISACA is a grouping of IT audit, security, risk and governance professionals.