Wireless Developer Network: "New Mobile Devices Creating Numerous Weak Links in the Chain as Corporate Security Standards Are Based on Fixed, Physical Devices
New mobile devices such as mobile phones, laptops and PDAs are a bad fit with existing enterprise security architectures, technologies and processes, according to secure application access specialists, PortWise.
Corporate security techniques, tools and practices are have been developed over the last 25 years with fixed, physical devices. However, the growth of mobile devices, fuelled by their wireless connectivity, is opening new loop holes in corporate security both in terms of architecture and policies. As wireless connectivity matured in 2004, PDAs evolved from unconnected organisers to wireless access for email and other applications. Mobile phones soon followed with email and Internet access. With distributed, mobile workforces working longer hours there is an ever increasing need to access a wide range of both front and back office applications. "
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