  The adoption of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), also known as Bring Your Own
Technology (BYOT), Bring Your Own Phone (BYOP), or Bring Your Own Personal
Computer (BYOPC), is a policy which allows people access to privileged
resources, information and services available on the private computer network
of an organization using their own personal computer devices. BYOD, since its
emergence in 2009, courtesy of Intel, is now a common practice in many
organizations. Academic institutions that attempt to implement BYOD, can derive
many benefits as well as many risks to its network infrastructure, largely
security-based. This paper presents an assessment of a WLAN network which has
been deployed for a campus-wide data centric e-learning platform at Kwame
Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) towards the overall
objective of achieving a barrier free internet access to enhance the teaching
and learning process at the university. The paper subsequently evaluates the
WLAN infrastructure, its accompanying BYOD set-up, and associated likely
security risks and threats, and recommends appropriate solutions.
