Students' Use of Security Features on Personal Devices Within Work Environments
Open Access
- Author:
- Hudock, Alexander
- Area of Honors:
- Information Sciences and Technology
- Degree:
- Bachelor of Science
- Document Type:
- Thesis
- Thesis Supervisors:
- Jens Grossklags, Thesis Supervisor
Marc Aaron Friedenberg, Thesis Honors Advisor - Keywords:
- BYOD
SMARTPHONE
WORKPLACE
MILLENIALS
SECURITY
IST - Abstract:
- In the past decade, mobile phones have grown from being a simple convenience to an absolute necessity. Beyond simply being able to call or text whoever you like wherever you are, phones have become a resource unlike any other. Smartphones provide us the power of a mobile computer anywhere, anytime, and for almost anything. With the rise of the smartphone, the risk of cyber-attacks and data breaches is also on the growing—something most people never think about. Driving the raping adoption of smartphones are millennials, a group currently flooding the workplace. This population has a very different view on what the use of smartphones in a workplace should look like, and many of them would prefer (in most cases) to use their own devices at work. From a company standpoint, this is called Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), and is an ever-increasing trend in the modern workplace. Although this trend is popular in companies, it has received very little focus from the research community at large. Based on the previously mentioned rising security concerns, as well as the increased use of smartphones in a newer generation of workers, the purpose of this thesis is to explore the current state of smartphone security and to understand the typical level of knowledge college students have about smartphone security. Additionally, it will look at risks associated with identity, personal information, and BYOD for both individuals as well as the companies where they will inevitably work.