With ever more employees clamoring to use smartphones for both personal and business purposes, IT and security managers are forced to answer tough questions:
First, will there be sanctioned enterprise adoption of Apple's iPhone -- not to the mention the iPad -- as well as smartphones based on Google's Android operating system, if not even more varieties?
And, if employees want to use their own smartphone or iPad in business, will that be allowed?
Finally, how will the enterprise prepare to exert management and security controls in a multi-operating system smartphone environment, or figure out how to secure data on a device that the employee, not the enterprise, officially owns?
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"It's coming," says Terrell Herzig, data security officer at UAB Health System, the hospital and medical research organization based in Birmingham, Ala. "The iPhones, the iPads, the Droid."
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Source: sfgate.com
By: Ellen Messmer
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