Implementing mobile security
Mobile Computing Broadband Wireless Access Security Network: Mobile software applications can realize a level of security that satisfies the needs of most companies. Learn the tricks of the trade to protect your mobile applications and devices from unauthorized access.

by Jim Geier, principal, Wireless-Nets Ltd. Intel Corp.

Learn the tricks of the trade to protect your mobile applications and devices from unauthorized access.

Mobile application security encompasses a broad range of elements, namely just about anything that negatively impacts the application. When developing mobile application software, you should be thinking about potential security risks and applicable countermeasures. This often goes well beyond what the software was intended to do, but the extra time and expense will be well worth it.

Mobile devices are small, and users can lose or misplace them easily. Or, they could end up stolen. Most IT organizations have a fairly good authentication for servers and databases residing on the corporate network, but the mobile device itself is still vulnerable to attack

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