Exposing a subset of enterprise data and applications anytime, anywhere is a requirement of doing business these days. There are, however, technical challenges to limiting that exposure to authorized parties and protecting against compromised systems they may be using.
This post is to call attention to an interesting presentation by SAN on the implications of mobile access for enterprise security. It is listed as the April 20, 2006 webcast entitled “Part 1: The Mobile User – Secure Access from Anywhere (even the Home PC!)” on the SANS webcast archive page at
https://www.sans.org/webcasts/archive.php
As the first part of a three-part series, it doesn’t provide solutions. It does, however, provide a good summary of the issues that mobile access introduces.