Mobile phone: productivity super hero, IT security Achilles heel

Smaller than my hand. More intelligent than a mini-computer. Able to detonate bombs from remote locations. Look! It’s a camera. It’s an electronic organiser. It’s the “cell phone”!

My first mobile phone was bigger than a brick, with no built-in memory, limited availability of services, and poor call quality. Hardly a threat to national security let alone the enterprise. Improved network speeds and more powerful features have combined to transform handsets into devices more like a computer than traditional telephone.

Today’s mobile phones have amazing processing capabilities, on board and removable memory, email clients, text messaging, cameras—and employees as wells as criminals are finding them to be highly effective productivity tools.

And what’s not to love? They organise our lives, keep us connected and informed and provide us with hours of entertainment—music, videos, games, and more. According to one wireless industry group, there are more than 250 million wireless subscribers in the United States.

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