Smartphones | Security Management Practices and Controls

Appropriate management practices are essential to maintaining and operating a secure infrastructure that incorporates smartphones and PDAs. Security practices entail the identification of an organization’s information system assets and the development, documentation, and implementation of policies, procedures, standards, and guidelines that help to ensure the [..]

Is mobile malware proliferating ?

Instances of previous attacks launched by malware against mobile handheld devices are discussed below. They are intended to illustrate the ways in which malware has manifested itself in the past and to gain insight about the potential security risks involved.

Fraud – The protection feature of a game developed for Symbian smartphones offered an early example of how subscriber fraud could be perpetuated through cell phone calling charges . In this [..]