Mobile Devices: Security Issues and Implications

Before launching into any discussion about new technologies and the presence of or increasing threat posed by that technology, it seems reasonable to ask ourselves questions such as “how prevalent is this technology/issue?” and “is it likely to get worse or better?”. After all, one could worry about the threats posed by alien superbeings or asteroids to your infrastructure, but it is unlikely to be productive or useful to your users when more pressing problems are electrical storms or lost backup tapes. To that end one doesn’t need to search extensively to understand the sheer number of mobile devices in use: according to a Pew Internet Project report1, it was found that