Remember the Mobile Devices
There is probably no topic of contention that I encounter more as an IT security consultant and auditor than mobile device security. People and organizations just don’t want to secure themselves against mobile devices. The excuses are numerous: · Regulating employee mobile devices will lower morale. · Employees will think we are spying on them. · Other organizations allow their employees to use mobile devices freely. · No one worries about mobile device security anymore. I have even heard many of these statements from other information security professionals, including the last statement. DON’T BE FOOLED! Mobile devices are a serious risk to your organization. I have appeared on the news three times in the last few years to speak about attacks and threats targeting mobile devices. Two of those times were specifically about attacks targeting iPhones and Apple devices. Perhaps, for this reason, I was particularly alarmed by a recen