RE: PocketPC firewalls

["Williams Jon" <WilliamsJonathan () JohnDeere com>]

That was the take we've had for a while, although recent changes (i.e.
certain iPAQs coming with built in 802.11 access, etc.) have made us
question that.  Hopefully, these machines won't have mission critical
data on them, but many of the users I know sync their email and address
books to their PDAs, so some users might inadvertantly have important
information we wouldn't want leaking.  For normal files, we're also
looking at file-level encryption, but since we were looking at the PDA
security question, we wanted to make sure we hadn't overlooked anything.

Thanks.

Jon 

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul D. Robertson [mailto:paul () compuwar net] 
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 6:36 AM
To: Williams Jon
Cc: firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com
Subject: Re: [fw-wiz] PocketPC firewalls

On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Williams Jon wrote:

> I've been tasked to identify firewall software that will run on 
> PocketPC-based PDAs.  Googling around so far has turned up only one 
> vendor in this space (Bluefire), but I was hoping that there were 
> others.  Is anyone aware of existing products that run on PDAs to 
> provide firewall services?

Personally, I'd wait a while.  Currently, there's basically zero threat
for Pocket PCs.  It's not at all clear if they'll gain enough success to
make widespread attacks worth-while, and until that happens, the
validity of any protection will be questionable (it's only been recently
that PC or "Personal" firewalls have become necessary enough for them to
be exercised and their issues found.)

I'd be in almost any enterprise, there are more significant targets that
should get the attention.

Paul
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