BYOA

BYOD security strategies can also be applied to BYOA, albeit with a few new app-specific wrinkles:

But we believe that that previous setup ought to be updated because of BYOA," notes Hugh Thompson, chief security strategist and SVP of Blue Coat, a business assurance technology provider.

While the BYO trend is most commonly associated with employee-owned smartphones and tablets entering the workplace, new research by Cloud and mobile services vendor, LogMeIn, sheds light on another growing aspect of employee-driven tech adoption: the rise and impact of bring your own apps (BYOA).

These innovative solutions helped to renounce the conventional approach to the IT systems and applications, enabled the BYOD and BYOA dreams in to a business reality using their own Cloud and Mobile Devices Management approaches.

Not only are employees using their personal devices for business, often they are using their personal apps (known as BYOA) for business as well.

This complements the "Bring Your Own Application" (BYOA) concept, where customers have the flexibility to download any App of their choice, thereby breaking the paradigm and revolutionizing the way the satellite handset is used.

The Federation Against Software Theft (FAST) is calling on organisations to be aware of the compliance challenges and not get caught out as working practices shift with the growth in BYOA (Bring Your Own Application).

India, April 7 -- Trends such as Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and Bring-Your-Own-App (BYOA) have changed the way information is accessed and shared by employees both inside and outside the office.

Ovum's research also depicts the rise of the bring-your-own-application (BYOA) trend.

Telsyte senior analyst Rodney Gedda also sees more uptake of software services in the cloud, which will fuel the bring-your-own-application (BYOA) trend.