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Re: iPods, iPhones and the Enterprise Data Clampdown
Posted by: Chris Maxcer 2008-12-02 14:08:55

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It's a safe bet that most enterprise employees don't haul their personal laptops into the workplace. However, with the ever-increasing capabilities of iPods and iPhones these days, are workers introducing new issues for IT security? The Apple iPod touch now comes with a whopping 32 GB of storage space and built-in WiFi capable of attaching to nearly ubiquitous corporate wireless networks. The iPhone doesn't currently have as much storage space, but it too has WiFi. While most organizations should be running relatively secure wireless networks, is there still a security risk?

A suite of business processes
Posted by: Taher Elgamal 2008-12-02 14:28:50 In reply to: Chris Maxcer

I think enterprises need to think about security as a suite of business processes, rather than a particular technology or two. The most effective way to improve security is to provide it at various levels of the network stack. Securing the network connection is an important step, of course, but usually does not result in truly improving the overall security of what enterprises care about--the sensitive data. DLP does not usually work unless there is a deep understanding of the applications and the policies associated with them, and as such, DLP is best implemented as an embedded feature in the applications that deal with enterprise data.

Taher Elgamal
Chief Security Officer
Axway Inc.