Aiko Solutions has announced the public release of SecuWipe, a data erasure utility for PDAs and smartphones.
Concerns over smartphone security have been rising steadily, not least because of the handsets’ great capacity for storing large amounts of corporate and personal information.
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Salary details, financial data, bank account details, sensitive business plans, notes from board meetings and personal medical details are being discovered by buyers of second hand smartphones.
Nearly a quarter of re-sold smartphones contain sensitive data, with BlackBerry owners identified as the worst offenders for discarding their handsets with company and personal information.
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SecureLogix Corporation has announced that its releasing a free suite of custom Voice-over-IP (VoIP) security assessment tools.
Downloadable from the company’s Web site, the tools can be used to assess susceptibility to a wide variety of SIP threats, including Denial-of-Service (DoS) and Man-in-the-Middle attacks, eavesdropping, audio insertion and deletion, and even call teardown.
While the iPhone and Google’s HTC-made G1 may be introducing a more consumer-oriented market to the smartphone, it is still very much a business tool.
The high-end handsets are being used to carry increasing amounts of confidential data, yet only 35 per cent of companies have a mobile device security strategy in place.
Smartphone.biz-news.com spoke to Larry Ketchersid, chairman and CEO of Media Sourcery, about how it’s helping enterprises with mobile workforces securely distribute confidential information.
Guus Leeuw jr, president & CEO of ITPassion Ltd, urges creativity in the way data is stored.
Any piece of electronic information needs to be stored somewhere and somehow. This should guarantee access to that piece of information over the years.