[itdiscuss] Smart Phone Security

[Jason Powell]

We currently enforce passwords on all mobile devices using activesync to hit exchange.  It's not that big of a deal since you can usually set the timeout value pretty high.  Our users haven't complained about it (almost 40 iphone users and 4 Pre)


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From: discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org] On Behalf Of Jay Betancourt
Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 7:44 PM
To: IT Discussion Forum
Subject: Re: [itdiscuss] Smart Phone Security

Hi Dave,

Sorry to hear about that situation.  We tell our iPhone users to password protect their devices in the event of loss or theft.  However, we do not require it.  Instead, users are shown how to automatically wipe the device from their Outlook Web Access in the event that such situation should occur.  While it's a hassle to have to enter the password every time, it's probably well worth it in case it falls into the wrong hands.  It's probably not a good idea to keep contact information on the SIM card and instead store it on the phone locally since it's synchronizing with the Exchange server.

Jay

On 12/1/09 6:26 PM, "Dave Ketcham" <dketcham at northcoastchurch.com> wrote:
We recently had one of our staff's iPhones stolen and it was not password protected and emails were deleted by the thief.  We currently aren't implementing any "Mobile Device" security features on our Exchange 2003 server.

What mobile device policies do you implement?  Do you require device unlock passwords? etc?

Dave Ketcham
North Coast Church
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