Survey on Access Control and Management Issues in Cloud and BYOD Environment

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is growing in popularity. In fact, this inevitable and unstoppable trend poses new security risks and challenges to control and manage corporate networks and data. BYOD may be infected by viruses, spyware or malware that gain access to sensitive data. This unwanted access led to the disclosure of information, modify access policy, disruption of service, loss of productivity, financial issues, and legal implications. This paper provides a review of existing literature concerning the access control and management issues, with a focus on recent trends in the use of BYOD. This article provides an overview of existing research articles which involve access control and management issues, which constitute of the recent rise of usage of BYOD devices. This review explores a broad area concerning information security research, ranging from management to technical solution of access control in BYOD. The main aim for this is to investigate the most recent trends touching on the access control issues in BYOD concerning information security and also to analyze the essential and comprehensive requirements needed to develop an access control framework in the future.