Mobile Security: New Challenges; Practical Solutions

Alex Wolfe, Editor-in-Chief, InformationWeek.com

awolfe@techweb.com

Smartphone Security

• Is the smartphone the new laptop?

Nokia C6 Guess Who?

• When it comes to deploying enterprise apps on smartphones, security is the elephant in the room.

One Size Fits All?

• “[Companies] go crazy putting security on their laptops, and then they have a BlackBerry where they'll ratchet up the security. But then they'll come over to the iPhone, and they'll break all the rules.“

Coming: Locked-down devices?

• Enterprise customers don't want all the applications the carriers are putting on the smartphone. They want a plain-vanilla device, with specific settings and apps, which can sustain a hard reset. This enables you to bring a mission-critical app back up easily if there's a lockup or failure in the field.

• Jay Barbour, Security Advisor, BlackBerry Security Group, Research In Motion

• Khoi Nguyen, Group Product Manager, Mobile Security and Management Group, Symantec Corporation

• Ryan Naraine, Senior Security Evangelist, Kasperksy Lab

• David Perry, Global Director of Education, Trend Micro, Inc.

Panelists