Smartphone security beyond office walls

Smartphones are imperative for road warriors and busy executives who are always on the move. The trend for providing both smartphones and laptop PCs to corporate employees has been growing steadily over the past few years, with increased importance placed on flexible working practices, and more executives and staff traveling around the globe.

With data becoming more mobile than ever, it is critical that companies have a pervasive security strategy across the corporate network both to minimise the risk of vulnerabilities from hackers, malware and viruses, loss and theft of corporate information, denial of service (DoS) attacks and other threats, and to maximise the expected benefits from their investments in mobile technology.

Many of these issues have been addressed for desktops and laptops – there is probably not one business without at least anti-virus software, if not a full firewall – however the trend toward “going mobile” in the workplace is creating a new level of security and management challenges for corporations.