News
Dial M for missing - SC magazine
[30-01-2009]
In this article Morse's Donal Casey discusses the security risks surrounding smartphones and similar devices, how organisations can protect themselves from the lost or theft of such items, and how the handsets themselves need to be treated by security as any other computer would, rather than as an afterthought.
"It's time to start treating smartphones as mini laptops and make them subject to the same stringent information security policies ... The device I carry everywhere with me has 16GB of memory and is packed with documents, spreadsheets and emails," (Donal) says . But if he loses that device , he adds, "all I will lose is the device itself, because the data is encrypted and can't be accessed by anyone else."