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bring your own wearables
Contributor(s): Emily McLaughlin
Bring your own wearables (BYOW) is a trend toward the use of employee-owned wearable computing devices in a business setting.
Wearable technology includes consumer products such as fitness and health monitors, smartwatches linked to mobile phones, smart eyewear such as Google Glass. A move toward bring your own wearables will require companies to reevaluate existing device policies to accommodate the security threats, that wearables can introduce to the enterprise.
Other BYO-trends include BYO-devices, BYO-apps, BYO-network, BYO-encryption and BYO-identity.
This was last updated in March 2014
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