A BYOD solution using a combination device is described. This combination device is comprised of an employee owned smart mobile device (31) and an accessory device (32) used together using a wireless local area network (46).
Mobile device (31) is an employee owned device that is used as a remote display of display output of enterprise certified applications (49) executing at accessory device (32).
Accessory device (32) is comprised of a general purpose processor, optional graphics processing unit, one or more local wireless area network interfaces that connect the mobile device (31) to accessory device (32), and one or more Internet network interfaces (52) that connect accessory to enterprise network.
The BYOD accessory device acts as a secure hardware gateway to connect the mobile device to corporate network.
The BYOD accessory device also acts as a secure execution environment of corporate applications in addition to providing secure storage of corporate data.