Bangalore: In todays fast-paced, highly complex, global economy Enterprises are in race to effectively compete each other and hence organizations are employing new, more powerful information technologies at an unprecedented rate. But in the meanwhile most of the enterprises are either ignoring or not fully understanding some Big Issues that are making things absolutely maddening for IT managers, technology developers and marketers.

Some of the big issues emerging this year are listed below for enterprises to accomplish their critical missions and carry out their corporate business strategies writes Roger Strukhoff in Sys-Con Media.

BYOD

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is currently one of the most frequently discussed issues in the enterprise world. The BYOD trend is on the rise partly due to the rise of increasingly easy-to-use smart phones and tablets, and partly due to the decline of corporate cell phone companies. However, although BYOD movement is clearly gaining momentum yet it posses the biggest challenge to IT. There are possible pitfalls that companies and employees should take into consideration when implementing BYOD policies.

Rich Santelesa, Senior counsel at InfoLaw Group, lists out a number of potential issues for the company when BYOD is implemented. Which  includes “potential liability for activities employees conduct through the device (such as on social networks and elsewhere online); cyber risk insurance coverage in the event of data breaches; additional burdens to e-discovery and increased risk of possible data breaches for BYOD when employees fail to reasonably secure the device,”  reports Real-User-Monitoring.Com