Starting at the device side, it is apparent from history that trying to enforce a device on a workforce is not viable - look what has happened with laptops and mobile phones. Would vendor-supplied interfaces be acceptable to the mobile workforce?
However, as more traveling professionals use the technology as a convenient means of accessing corporate data and e-mail, information technology administrators may feel more comfortable; public wireless access should become more secure as...
The devices that can be used to remotely tunnel in to corporate networks include phones and Communicators that use the Series 60 and Series 80 Nokia platforms, although Nokia VP Bob Brace, in the company's Enterprise Solutions division, pointed...
The ability to 'lock down' known systems such as laptops, is well established but securing these devices in the same way is, at best, weak at the moment. All 12 of silicon.com's CIO Jury IT user panel said the proliferation of 3G mobile phones and...
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Dell recently quashed rumours it would buy mobile company Motorola and make a move into the smart phone market, instead preferring to focus on mobility with laptops designed to serve the growing mobile workforce.