Portable device security

摘要

Of all of the issues that bedevil us, this has got to be near the top of the list. Portable devices of all types are a real security challenge, but the worst are the mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets. And, don't forget the other types of portable devices, such as USB flash and thumb drives and the like. Let's start there. The tales are legion of people copying sensitive data onto a thumb drive, taking it home to work on, and then losing the drive and thus exposing infor-mation.There is now a whole category of not-so-high-tech that poses a real threat of data leakage. The answer, of course, is encryption, but that encryption must be integrated so tightly into the device that it cannot easily be undone by a data thief.