 Guide
to PDA security, addressing the challenges presented by this
emerging set of technologies.
Shows how to assess the level of threat posed by PDAs in your
organization, develop a measured and enforceable policy response
to minimize the risk, and why solutions usually involve the
operating system.
For those deploying, managing, or using PDAs in the
workplace.
Description:
LOCK
IN PDA SECURITY:
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Let
an IT security expert help you assess the PDA threat to your
business
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Learn
what you must do to lock out dangers -- password theft,
viruses, electronic eavesdropping, mobile code and wireless
vulnerabilities, data corruption, device loss and theft, and
other risks
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Maximize
and protect the value of increasingly capable personal
digital assistants to your organization
DOWNSIZE
PDA RISKS. SUPERSIZE PDA REWARDS.
PDAs have moved into the workplace. More than 25 million of
them will soon be accessing company networks. Are you
prepared?
If you’re an information technology or business executive,
the time is right to size up the unique security risks these
small, portable devices pose.
This essential primer for those deploying, managing or using
PDAs in the workplace will help you understand and address the
challenges presented by this emerging set of technologies.
Written by respected IT security experts, PDA Security, shows
you how to:
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Assess
the level of threat posed by PDAs in your organization
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Develop
a measured and enforceable policy response to minimize the
risk
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Understand
the technical issues and defend against the threats PDAs
pose to privacy, theft of sensitive information, system
corruption, and other issues of network and data misuse
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Analyze
secure solutions for all major handhelds -- Palm, Pocket
PC, and RIM
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Examine
a case study on securing Palm for the work environment
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Learn
why solutions almost always involve the operating system
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Discover
what White-Hat Hacking reveals about vulnerabilities
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Find
profitable ways to integrate PDAs into business plans and
networks, while downsizing risks
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Get
an insider’s preview of the future of handhelds -- the
PCs of the early twenty-first century
With a Foreword by Rebecca Bace, internationally renowned
intrusion-detection and network-security specialist and former
member of the United States Department of Defense National
Security Agency (NSA).
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Paperback:
378 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.06 x 9.06 x 6.08
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Publisher:
McGraw-Hill Professional; (July 25, 2003)
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ISBN:
0071424903
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