An enterprise security architecture for accessing SaaS cloud services with BYOD

Abstract

In contemporary times IT plays a major role in enterprises' business processes. Companies pursue the adoption of new technological trends in order to improve their business in terms of both performance and efficiency so that they can keep up with the fierce market competition. However, the emergence of cloud computing technology and the opportunity for employees to work using their personal smart phones through the adoption of Bring your own Device (BYOD) policies introduce additional risk for the enterprise. In this paper we propose an enterprise information security architecture for accessing SaaS cloud services by Smartphone BYOD. This architecture is based on the SABSA security architecture framework, which consists of the hardware, software and service-oriented security components that can reduce the aforementioned risks to acceptable levels.