Considerations in Securing and Controlling Mobile Computing and Devices

摘要

A new phenomenon is quite evident in today's business environment: computing mobility and dispersion. This is evidenced by the number of professionals and employees that carry portable laptops and PDAs, and who seek access to their company's computing resources via public kiosks at airports and cafes, hotels, bookstores and public libraries. It is clear that this trend is not going to decrease but rather blossom. As has been the case in the past, users are not going to give up the convenience of the new technologies for the sake of security. This is simply a matter of progress following its course. ClOs, managers and other profess-sionals need to look into ways to minimize the exposure derived from mobile computing. This COM-SAC issue focuses on the implications of computing mobility, the ambulant worker, the host of threats that this new business model presents to organizations of all types and the need to minimize exposure derived from this new computing environment.