Enterprises are coming to realize that while their VPNs might be doing a fine job of controlling data, mobile devices have turned into a veritable wild west of security nightmares. It was all well and good when the only thing they had to worry about was data being accessed by enterprise BlackBerry users. Its proprietary server infrastructure has always provided a welcome security blanket for email security. Today, however, almost every smartphone in use can be a business device. And that’s a problem that IT managers are not happy about.
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Who's on the Mobile Security Job?
Posted by: Michael Ginsberg March 9, 2011 05:00 AMEnterprises are coming to realize that while their VPNs might be doing a fine job of controlling data, mobile devices have turned into a veritable wild west of security nightmares. It was all well and good when the only thing they had to worry about was data being accessed by enterprise BlackBerry users. Its proprietary server infrastructure has always provided a welcome security blanket for email security. Today, however, almost every smartphone in use can be a business device. And that’s a problem that IT managers are not happy about.