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February 04, 2006
Techworld: Companies Must Update Security Practice to Handle Portable Media Players
TechWorld has published an article discussing the risks that iPods and other portable MP3 players pose in a corporate environment, and also some of the potential benefits. "The capacities at this high end equate to a laptop drive. This means that vast amounts of corporate data can be removed on a small consumer device that sits in the pocket. Introducing measures to prevent such devices from connecting to corporate resources are failing. As fast as vendors bring out software to identify and block the devices, device manufacturers and software companies are releasing utilities to hide the devices from network administrators. "
From Techworld: Companies Must Update Security Practice to Handle Portable Media Players
Posted by Gary at February 4, 2006 01:23 PM
