Business Risks and Security Assessment for Mobile Devices

摘要

With respect to mobile devices and security, business executives rarely know where to start. While mobile technology is burgeoning with new innovations, time-tested mitigation techniques and evolving tool sets are available and highly effective. Foremost, corporations need to: 1. Recognize the risks of mobile technology and commit resources to take decisive actions that will control their vulnerabilities 2. Inventory the high-value data and most serious exposures 3. Evaluate which countermeasures directly and cost-effectively reduce their highest risks 4. Implement a reasonable strategy that phases in improvements in information security commensurate with risk and resources 5. Commit ongoing resources to revise and refine over time as circumstances evolve For business leaders who fail to implement sufficient safeguards, the costs can be catastrophic. Further, with the integration of an increasingly networked world, their problems become everyone's.