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Effects of BYOD on an enterprise's [health care's] security systems: Optimizing the requirements of security, privacy, technology, and cost

Effects of BYOD on an enterprise's [health care's] security systems: Optimizing the requirements of security, privacy, and technology as a function of cost

Problem: BYOD is popular and unstoppable.  It has many benefits to an enterprise [health care] such as increased productivity, reduced costs, and reduced procurement.  There are, however, security and privacy concerns regarding BYOD.

Hypothesis: BYOD should be embraced. Through the proper combination and optimization of security technologies and security policies, a proper system life cycle for BYOD can be implemented successfully at the enterprise [health care].

Solution:

Validation:

By: Nima Zahadat 

READ: BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)

CITATION
Brooks, C. (2012). BYOD (Bring your own device).

This was a presentation by Chartered Institute for IT.  Interesting facts:

By 2016

• 4/5 people will have a smartphone
• 4/5 people will have a tablet device
• 60% of smartphones will be employee owned
• 70% of tablets will be employee owned
• Devices will be more popular than laptops
• More iPhones are sold every day than are babies born
• 35 million apps are downloaded each day (2012)
• Senior executives prefer to use their iPhone rather than a Blackberry at work
• IT departments sued to drive technology, however this is now in reverse

Benefits of BYOD: Many listed but here are some highlights

• Less training as users are self-taught
• Citrix now creating BYOD platforms
• BYOD makes the most of cloud technology
• Less reliance on IT staff
• Enables work from anywhere at any time

Risks of BYOD: Some highlights

• BYOD have led IT departments to adopt less restrictive policies
• Hard to enforce "Acceptable user policy" for a user's own device
• Devices left un-managed can potentially result in significant data breaches
• Users want financial incentive

BYOD Case Studies: Some highlights

• IBM supporting 200,000 BYOD in 2012 and growing
• Citrix gives each new employee 2,000 pounds in UK to purchase BYOD when they join
• Ford allows email from any BYOD device
•  Cheaper to enable BYOD infrastructure than to purchase notebooks/textbooks

By: Nima Zahadat 

READ: How Mobile Devices are Transforming Healthcare

CITATION
West, D. (2012). How mobile devices are transforming healthcare. Issues in Technology Innovation, 18, 1-14. 

Good article from "Issues in Technology Innovation, Number 18".  The article makes compelling case with data and interviews that mobile devices are improving healthcare tremendously especially for the poor and those in rural areas.  It does say the concern is patient privacy and security, again pointing out the benefits are great if security issues can be mitigated especially on BYOD.  Some parts of the article:

• Global mobile data traffic will increase 18-fold between 2011 and 2016
• Mobile emergence has improved service delivery, empowered consumers, businesses and entrepreneurs
• Mobile technology is poised to alter how health care is delivered
• Mobile health care or mHealth or m-Health
• Mobile devices are saving money in health care
• Mobile devices in health care are providing
• Appointment minders
• Telemedicine
• Access to patient records
• measuring treatment compliance
• Raising health awareness
• Monitoring patients
• Supporting physicians in decision making
• mHealth obstacles
• Competing priorities
• Budgetary restrictions
• Staff shortages
• Privacy concerns
• Data security
• Regulatory requirements
• Patients can be monitored in real time
• This is estimated to save $197 billion over 25 years
• 3G and 4G wireless can be used to reach rural communities
• Data shows that
• Physicians with access to mobile devices respond more promptly to medical test results
• There were few errors in medication prescription and hospital discharging
• Doctors showed improved data management and record keeping practices
• Mobile devices can be use to "text" ER to designated number and get the anticipated wait time
• 12,000 medical apps available for Apple devices
• 40,000 medical apps available across devices
• mHealth revenues projected to reach $23 billion by 2017
• Productivity gains estimated to reach $305 billion by 2022
• Patient and doctor number one concerns are security of data, privacy of data
• Especially true on BYOD
• Doctors and nurses prefer BYOD 

By: Nima Zahadat 

Notes from talking to Joey Melendez

Joey told me the topic I have picked is highly relevant to SE.  Below are the notes.

Optimize the requirements of security and technology so you have the balance
In doing this the challenge is how to get empirical data to do the analysis
Requirements: transferring the shall statements to empirical data and then doing the analysis

Key thing: how are you going to validate?  Best way is to have empirical data to do data analysis

Sounds like an optimization problem

Effects of BYOD on enterprise (healthcare) security systems: balancing the requirements of security and technology (optimization problem)  Trying to get the most bang for your buck by balancing two separate items

Requirements analysis and optimization (balancing)

Requirements for balance in healthcare: just looking at one set instead of a more generic approach

By: Nima Zahadat