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Plan for diverse platforms. Unlike the fairly homogenous PC world, there’s significant heterogeneity in smartphone platforms. One size security solutions may not fit all, so flexibility and planning is key, as well as awareness of how dynamic the smartphone space is, with new products constantly emerging. Automate your security policies. Employees often use their own mobile devices for work which may increase the risk of security breaches. Automating security policies and software updates will ensure everyone complies with a business’ corporate security standards. Balance productivity with control. Employees want to be free to work in a way that suits them best. So, it’s vital to design a strategy that balances security and control with the freedom to work in progressive and productive ways. Manage the cultural shift to mobile working. Educating employees about sensible and secure device use will help reduce expensive device and data losses, especially for businesses who are just starting the move to mobile working. Vodafone partners with industry leading security vendors to offer security testing and a complete portfolio of managed smartphone security solutions, providing our customers with a single, real time view of their security status including: Protection from malware, spyware and phishing attacks with the Vodafone Security software. This can be managed centrally to make sure devices stay protected from the latest threats to smartphones; Full Disk Encryption protecting business and personal information including storage cards. Pointsec Mobile Encryption provides a unique and consistent FIPS 140-2 certified solution across the Vodafone Mobile Exchange portfolio, with all policy managed centrally within Vodafone’s device management platform; and Vodafone Device Management service manages the removal of unauthorised applications, remote lock and wipe and control policies such as Bluetooth lockout. |
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SME’s and businesses of all sizes can also take advantage of services such as hosted Managed VPNs, which encrypt the data being accessed over their networks, keeping it safe from the threats of hackers or thieves. If we look at where mobile devices are today, the range and functionality of new handsets coming to market is quite astonishing. It’s not news that they’ve transformed the way business is done locally and globally, but I certainly believe that the best is yet to come. In order to take advantage of that, businesses need to make sure they’ve got their basic mobile data security policies established from the start. |
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Dealers need to work with their customers to ensure that they appreciate the vulnerability to their business data some of the latest smartphone solutions could create and offer secure protection within the set up deployed. | ||||||||
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Good security policies will help prevent the majority of ‘accidental’ losses of data, but if you include voice as being a form of data you may need an additional deterrent such as call recording to reduce the risk of confidential disclosure. Another option could be to host the mobile data service, as this will address the issue of data backup and data recovery, although it is difficult to sell, as you are usually pitching to person whose job may be put at risk (turkeys looking forward to Christmas). There is no getting away from the fact that data security is a business decision that should be taken under advice and weighed against the cost and potential risk of losing data against the cost of protecting against such loss. One man’s protection is another man’s straight jacket; there is no easy answer, but education will help. |
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