An Economical Cluster Based System for Detecting Data Leakage from BYOD

The Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) model of technology in the workplace is becoming more and more common - leading to a variety of issues users, managers, and administrators have not had to deal with previously. Though there are many positive and negative issues surrounding BYOD, the issues of privacy and data loss are at the forefront, as business try to strike a balance between keeping technology costs low and protecting their data. This paper seeks to mitigate these issues with a low-cost monitoring system for wireless networks that uses existing, under-utilized office computers as its basic infrastructure.