There are many common, but inaccurate, assumptions about the security and privacy of smartphones and other handheld converged devices. For many corporate employees today, mobile phones and PDAs have replaced PCs. Enterprise workers are now performing the same functions they previously carried out on their desktop PCs on much smaller devices, virtually anywhere and anytime. One of the hidden dangers most CSOs and CIOs aren’t adequately addressing these days is rogue code infecting their employees’ mobile phones — or worse, their corporate networks.
Smartphone security has really turned into a hot topic following the demonstration at the Black Hat Briefings. Was this just scaremongering or should we all be genuinely worried about our security? Especially as we put more and more sensitive data on our phones, the risk increases. How do we deal with this risk?
We've been discussing this same subject on our blog: http://uimagicinc.com/blog/ Please check us out and leave a comment!
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Neutralizing the Smartphone Security Threat
Posted by: John Adams June 17, 2009 04:00 AMThere are many common, but inaccurate, assumptions about the security and privacy of smartphones and other handheld converged devices. For many corporate employees today, mobile phones and PDAs have replaced PCs. Enterprise workers are now performing the same functions they previously carried out on their desktop PCs on much smaller devices, virtually anywhere and anytime. One of the hidden dangers most CSOs and CIOs aren’t adequately addressing these days is rogue code infecting their employees’ mobile phones — or worse, their corporate networks.
We've been discussing this same subject on our blog: http://uimagicinc.com/blog/ Please check us out and leave a comment!