Stay Secure With The SIO to Go iPhone App!

If you are reading this post, you probably have a smart phone in your pocket. You may, in fact, be reading this on your Blackberry or iPhone in line at the movies or sitting at home eating breakfast. You might next check your work e-mail—a common practice, and in most cases supported and even encouraged by your employer.But as smart phones get more powerful and, well, smarter, you’ll be interacting with robust business applications and company data from anywhere and you may be doing this without the support, protection or even the knowledge of your IT organization. Additionally, you may be bringing devices you’ve acquired outside your company’s IT organization. This process of using outside devices for company business we call the consumerization of IT—consumers are making the choices.Like a lot of folks, I browse sites like Facebook, Twitter and other social sites daily—sometimes hourly—and have come to expect to use them on my mobile phone.  This type of mingled use of business applications and personal sites on smart phones along with the consumerization of IT means organizations have a bigger challenge than ever managing and protecting active mobile users. Access to a robust computing infrastructure can be found in a phone the size of a deck of cards, and if you’re in charge of your company’s IT you have to (continue reading...)