Re: Smartphone Policies.

[Leon DuPree <duprleo () GMAIL COM>]

I would be very interested in this as I am in graduate school looking to
study how to secure wireless media whichis almost an oxymoron.



On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Matthew Gracie <graciem () canisius edu>wrote:

> Long ago, perhaps back in the Pleistocene, a phone could be trusted to
> make and receive phone calls and otherwise leave well enough alone.
>
> Now, of course, with iPhones and Blackberries everywhere, people want to
> read their mail, check their calendars, and otherwise manipulate College
> data using their handheld devices.
>
> Like many places, I'm sure, we've been lax in addressing this, so we've
> got departments going off on their own, buying random products, and then
> asking ITS to make them work.
>
> Does anyone have some sage advice -- or even better, written policies --
> for containing this? Have you standardized on a particular phone OS,
> manufacturer, model, etc.?
>
> From almost any perspective -- security, warranty, support, inventory
> control -- we need to get a handle on this.
>
> --Matt
>
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> Matt Gracie                         (716) 888-8378
> Information Security Administrator  graciem () canisius edu
> Canisius College ITS                Buffalo, NY
> http://www2.canisius.edu/~graciem/graciem_public_key.gpg



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