Trust Digital Offers Holiday Tips to Help Companies Support Mobile Workers
MCLEAN, Va. -- Nov. 27, 2007 This holiday season, Trust Digital - the leading provider of enterprise smartphone security management software - offers Enterprise IT department's helpful tips to prepare and protect the corporate network without being viewed as the holiday grinch. With the gift giving time upon us, lots of workers who think they've been very good will want to use their slick new mobile devices on the job.
Stocking Stuffer -- or Network Liability?
This year, more smartphones will be sold for the holidays than ever before. Worldwide smartphone sales now exceed laptop sales according to a new research report from In-Stat. The market research firm forecasts smartphone sales to grow by more than 30% annually over the next five years.
At the same time, personal smartphones are increasingly serving double duty as work phones. As IT managers come back to work after the New Year, their holiday cheer will be tested by waves of new smartphones trying to access the corporate network.
"Black Friday marks the start of the holiday shopping season and the frenzy is around the latest and greatest mobile devices. Increasingly they are being used, and viewed as, the $79 PC," said Dan Dearing, vice president of product management and marketing at Trust Digital. "IT administrators could have a big headache on their hands as these devices try to access the network if there's not an infrastructure in place to create secure policies, protect company data and block unwanted users."
Holiday Resolutions to Ease the IT Burden
Here are the top 5 tips to manage and secure an enterprise network and the holidays' coolest devices.
1. Knows when you are sleeping; knows when you're awake.
-- Know who is accessing your network by creating a policy-based security management system to address the advanced security needs of your mobile applications and devices.
2. Making a list.
-- Create a list of employees authorized to use devices and access points of the network.
3. Checking it twice.
-- Audit devices through a single console to ensure that policies are being enforced on authorized devices.
4. Better watch out.
-- Enforce security policies on user smartphones and at the edge of your network. Be prepared to offer two-factor user authentication, data-at-rest encryption, resource controls, device firewall, IP proxy, SMS blocking, application controls and image management.
5. You better not cry, you better not pout.
-- Give employees their choice of smartphone and provide them with help desk assistance so they can effectively manage mobile needs for increased productivity.
RESOURCES
-- Learn about security management for smartphones (http://www.trustdigital.com/products/)
-- See the complete list of smartphones supported by Trust Digital (http://www.trustdigital.com/products/su ... phones.asp)
-- Receive Phone Factory Smartphone Certification Updates (http://www.trustdigital.com/products/phone_updates.asp)
-- Secure your phone today (http://www.trustdigital.com/company/form.asp)
About Trust Digital
Trust Digital is the leading provider of smartphone security management software for securing enterprise data that resides at the edge of the network where smartphones and PDAs have access to corporate information. By implementing Trust Digital's policy-based software solution, corporations eliminate the regulatory and financial risks associated with the accidental or malicious disclosure of data. Recipient of the 2007 SC Magazine Award for Best Mobile Device Security Solution, Trust Digital's customer base includes Government and Global 2000 organizations. For more information, please visit our website, http://www.trustdigital.com.