Are smartphone viruses really a threat to your network?
Security News| June 24th, 2008All evidence points to the fact that smartphone viruses will be a threat to your network even though they aren’t at this moment. After all, the latest mobile devices are packed with more and more applications and corporate data, are enabled for real Web browsing and online collaboration, and can access corporate servers. What’s more, they live outside your firewall and often make use of three wireless networks (Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and cellular).”It’s definitely something I worry about a lot,” says Sam Lamonica, CIO of Rulph and Sletten, a Redwood City, Calif., general contractor. “With the proliferation of smartphones throughout our business, it poses a great risk if and when hackers get good at pumping malware through those devices.”
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