By Dr. Tim Sandle
Publication Date: 2026-01-04 21:19:00
Remote working / home working, using a laptop. — Image by © Tim Sandle
Bring your own device (BYOD) is increasingly popular in the workplace, where employees bring in their personally owned devices (laptops, tablets, smartphones, etc.) to work. However, for this practice to be secure, companies must deploy security measures to prevent information ending up in the wrong hands.
To learn more, Digital Journal caught up with Hypori CEO Jared Shepard about the rise of mobile virtualization to protect BYOD mobile devices.
According to Shepard, the business technology world is seeing further disruption: “The enterprise edge is evolving fast and being completely redefined. What was once an infrastructure decision anchored in offices and owned hardware has become an operational reality defined by mobility. Employees now work from customer sites, shared spaces, home offices, and virtually anywhere a secure connection exists. Mobility is no longer an exception to the enterprise; it is the enterprise.”
At the same time, Shepard observes: “legacy assumptions about corporate mobility have collapsed. The era of carrying a separate “work phone” is effectively over. This shift is not driven by device cost or availability, but by employee choice. Today, more than 80% of organizations operate formal BYOD programs, not because enterprises cannot issue hardware, but because employees refuse to carry (or tolerate) a second device.”
Shepard warns: “Enterprises…
