PDA security

Hello,

Is anyone familiar in terms of the security risk when you use PDA to
synchronous your email in a financial institition environment, like bank or
insurance company?

need your guidance on this.

thanx

Lanwench
Wed Jul 14 10:16:16 CDT 2004

Well, if someone loses their PDA or it gets stolen, the data will be
accessible to the person who has it. There are password-protection features
on most PDAs, but I doubt they would stop someone who really wanted to get
in.

joan wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is anyone familiar in terms of the security risk when you use PDA to
> synchronous your email in a financial institition environment, like
> bank or insurance company?
>
> need your guidance on this.
>
> thanx

Andrew
Thu Jul 15 02:00:42 CDT 2004

If you are an individual user then there are a number of products that will
protect the data stored on the device and give improved power-on password
functionality. Utimaco is one such company. If you want secure Enterprise
deployments of PDAs then you should look at a synchronisation infrastructure
that encrypts data over the air, enforces secure usage and can remotely
'kill' a lost or stolen device. Since I work for such a company,
Intellisync, I won't continue plugging but feel free to contact me offline
for more details.

Andrew


"joan" <joan_toh@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> Is anyone familiar in terms of the security risk when you use PDA to
> synchronous your email in a financial institition environment, like bank
or
> insurance company?
>
> need your guidance on this.
>
> thanx
>
>

joan
Thu Jul 15 07:41:11 CDT 2004

does financial institutions generally allow employee's personal PDA to be
plugged to their internal workstations?


"joan" <joan_toh@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> Is anyone familiar in terms of the security risk when you use PDA to
> synchronous your email in a financial institition environment, like bank
or
> insurance company?
>
> need your guidance on this.
>
> thanx
>
>