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Mobile Device Security: Securing the Handheld, Securing the Enterprise

Motorola Good Technology Group

Professionals are increasingly realizing the productivity benefits of mobile devices such as Smartphones, personal digital assistants (PDAs) and converged PDA/phones. While this mobile revolution is an advantage to professionals, it is creating a tremendous security management challenge for CIOs and other IT professionals. Proprietary and confidential data is now moving outside of the secure perimeter of the enterprise and onto mobile devices that can be located anywhere in the world. What’s more, these devices have a variety of data communication and storage technologies, such as e-mail/PIM synchronization software, infrared data transmission, Bluetooth and removable data storage. As a result, it is easy for mobile devices to become strongholds of enterprise information.

Unless actions are taken to secure this information, the mobile device represents a potentially severe security risk to the enterprise.

This white paper identifies security threats to corporate data on mobile devices and details how mobile devices can become a “backdoor” to the enterprise. This paper also details how immediate action can be taken to defend against these threats and which issues an IT security manager should be aware of while planning a comprehensive handheld security policy. While server-side and transport security is vital to an overall mobile data security plan, this white paper will focus on security as it relates to the mobile device.

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