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Reactive BYOD Management Sets Businesses at Risk despite AI Developments

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Business Honor
16 September, 2025

A number of businesses handle BYOD reactively, resulting in risk. Transforming the future workplace with smarter rules and identity-based security.

Businesses have always supported the bring your own device (BYOD) trend, but numerous businesses continue to manage it in a reactive way that raises security weaknesses. Arthur Goldstuck, CEO of World Wide Worx, and Lionel Dartnall, SADC country manager at Check Point South Africa, highlighted this. According to Goldstuck, most businesses adopt BYOD rules after facing security issues. A large number of businesses are handling BYOD in an ad hoc, unorganized manner. "Those who are succeeding find BYOD to be a necessary part of their IT plan," Goldstuck said.

BYOD is growing simpler to manage due to advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and security systems like secure access service edge (SASE) and zero trust network access (ZTNA). According to Goldstuck, "AI can now track traffic, detect unusual patterns of activity, and detect dangers before they occur." Dartnall went on to state that devices outside of business networks are now safer due to behavioral analysis and immediate identification of threats.

But when security tools improve, so do fraudsters. According to Goldstuck, "attackers find new ways in every moment that security gets better." "We are currently employing identity administration and behavioral tracking rather than just barriers.” Many businesses avoid BYOD as risks increase, especially in highly controlled sectors. To get more control, they use models like corporate-owned, personally-enabled (COPE), choose your own device (CYOD), and corporate-owned, business-only (COBO).

KnowBe4 Africa's SVP for content planning, Anna Collard, published an alert about possible risks like insider threats, shadow IT, information leaks, and incorrect utilization of AI abilities. According to Collard, a lot of businesses develop BYOD rules but fail to properly carry them out. She suggested using easier management tools while keeping work and private information separate. Future safety will be less about devices and more about user identification and data access. A mobile, cloud-based world will be simpler for businesses to adjust to with innovative, flexible rules.