by Alan Zeichick, principal analyst, Camden Associates.
When you extend your applications to mobile platforms, it's critical that budgets, deployment plans, and policies be managed to ensure that such deployments are made safely and securely.
No doubt you—and your team and customers—have already considered some of these threats. Even so, it is worth reviewing them, to provide a framework for understanding the security implications of extending enterprise applications beyond the firewall.
Watch out for these security threats Loss/theft of a networking device and its MAC address. Some wireless security schemes are based on authenticating specific network cards, based on their Media Access Control (MAC) address, which is a unique hexadecimal code (like 00-06-25-51-3D-F1, the address of one of your author's test-lab WiFi cards) hard-wired into most Ethernet interfaces. Network administrators can configure switches, routers, and access points to only permit devices with a known MAC address to access the LAN.
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