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I just read an interesting article at the Secure Computing Magazine called How to get more intelligent about smartphones.

Here are some quotes:
[...] like many other big firms, it has been a work in progress to get the hundreds of employees using such devices as Palm Treos and BlackBerries to also appreciate the security ramifications [...]

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“I don’t know any company who has a really good written technical policy to be able to control these devices,” says Daniel Hoffman, author of Blackjacking: Security Threats to Blackberry Devices, PDAs and Cell Phones in the Enterprise. “I don’t know a single one.”

So this is some kind of interesting. Especially the part about “written technical policy”. Does anyone of you (yes YOU!) know about some good public technical policy we should take a look to before using our BlackBerry?

Users say they appreciate BlackBerry’s security features. “The worst thing I worry about is email,” says Sharon Finney, information security administrator for Decatur, Ga.-based DeKalb Medical Center, an 800-bed facility. “We require all employees to password-protect their BlackBerry. If that device is reported lost, we remotely wipe it clean.”

Wiping a BlackBerry is a great security feature of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server to ensure the BlackBerry’s confidential data is not used by another thrid party. But what happens to BlackBerry users with a normal BlackBerry outside a BES and may be even without BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS)?

For example, I installed the EmergencyWipe on my BlackBerry which I can use to wipe my BlackBerry when someone is about to steal or confiscate my BlackBerry. Who knows! I heard about some guys who just experienced that kind of situation and would have been thankful for such a useful tool.

The complete article can be read at: How to get more intelligent about smartphones

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