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• Mobile Device Security-Securing the Handheld, Securing the Enterprise

Professionals are increasingly realizing the productivity benefi ts of mobile devices such as Smartphones, personal digital assistants (PDAs) and converged PDA/phones. While this mobile revolution is an advatage 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 howmobile 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.

Issues addressed include:

• How much of a security threat is the mobile device to my organization?
• What threats do these devices bring to the enterprise?
• What security policies should be deployed to provide adequate protection?
• Should I have any regulatory or compliance concerns?

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