BYOD programs may come with the restriction of apps that consume too much data, risk malware or distract workers. Here are 10 iPhone apps that you're likely to find on a blacklist. So you wanna be a “Bring Your Own Device” groupie and use your personal iPhone for work. Get ready to be handed a blacklist of apps courtesy of your stodgy IT department. Better not fire them up when you’re on the job.To be fair, only a handful of IT departments serve up a blacklist that rains on the BYOD parade, according to Fiberlink MaaS360, which surveyed its customers to come up with the most popular blacklisted iPhone apps. Less than 10 percent of MaaS360’s customers have an apps blacklist for iOS. On average, a company that creates a blacklist targets only five apps.But blacklists are becoming more common, says Christopher Clark, president at Fiberlink, “as apps continue to spawn everywhere for everyone in a bring-your-own era.” Education, healthcare, finance, government and retail are blacklisting hotspots.That’s not to say blacklisted apps can’t be on your BYOD iPhone, rather you might not be able to use those apps in certain places and situations. “When it comes to personal devices where companies have a BYOD policy, the key is to avoid overly restricting the employees’ personal devices,” Clark says. “It is all about scenario based policies and management, which I find employees accept 99 percent of the time. Everyone knows what needs to be suspended or disallowed in operating rooms, class rooms, intellectual property meetings and so forth. It’s all about context, and I find most employees cooperate.”Slideshow: 9 iPhone-iPad Apps That Invade Your Privacy, and 1 That Doesn’t Companies mainly blacklist apps that expose cracks for corporate data leakage, open the doors to malware, or have the potential to make workers unproductive. Apps that have large data consumption thresholds and strangle bandwidth also might land on a blacklist. Lastly, apps that can jailbreak a device are blacklisting targets.Here are 10 popular iPhone apps that you’ll often find on a blacklist: Netflix Hoccer Angry Birds SkyDrive Pandora Google Drive Facebook BoxNet SugarSync Dropbox (Source: MaaS360)Tom Kaneshige covers Apple, BYOD and Consumerization of IT for CIO.com. Follow Tom on Twitter @kaneshige. Follow everything from CIO.com on Twitter @CIOonline, Facebook, Google + and LinkedIn. Email Tom at tkaneshige@cio.com Related content feature Red Hat embraces hybrid cloud for internal IT The maker of OpenShift has leveraged its own open container offering to migrate business-critical apps to AWS as part of a strategy to move beyond facilitating hybrid cloud for others and capitalize on the model for itself. By Paula Rooney May 29, 2023 5 mins CIO 100 Technology Industry Hybrid Cloud feature 10 most popular IT certifications for 2023 Certifications are a great way to show employers you have the right IT skills and specializations for the job. These 10 certs are the ones IT pros are most likely to pursue, according to data from Dice. By Sarah K. White May 26, 2023 8 mins Certifications Careers interview Stepping up to the challenge of a global conglomerate CIO role Dr. Amrut Urkude became CIO of Reliance Polyester after his company was acquired by Reliance Industries. He discusses challenges IT leaders face while transitioning from a small company to a large multinational enterprise, and how to overcome them. By Yashvendra Singh May 26, 2023 7 mins Digital Transformation Careers brandpost With the new financial year looming, now is a good time to review your Microsoft 365 licenses By Veronica Lew May 25, 2023 5 mins Lenovo Podcasts Videos Resources Events SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe