[itdiscuss] Smart Phone Security

[Darin Rohatinsky]

We use a service called SmrtGuard <http://www.smrtguard.com/> which is only
for BlackBerry devices.  The iPhones have MobileMe, and the others have
nothing because we're using Google Apps.  SmrtGuard is the best by far.

Darin

2009/12/1 Lee, Jason <jason.lee at nwoods.org>

> JP, we do the same, but the Pre doesn’t have the “only lock every 24 hrs”
> like win mobile or iphones do…
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> How do you pre users not have to key in the pw every time their phone is
> dormant.
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> Dave, for the future you can do remote wipe with Exchange2003 if you
> enforce a basic pw and security policy.
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> *From:* discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org [mailto:
> discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org] *On Behalf Of *Jason Powell
> *Sent:* Tuesday, December 01, 2009 6:55 PM
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> *To:* IT Discussion Forum
> *Subject:* Re: [itdiscuss] Smart Phone Security
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> 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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> *Jason* Powell
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> Granger Community Church
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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
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> Hi Dave,
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> 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.
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> Jay
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> On 12/1/09 6:26 PM, "Dave Ketcham" <dketcham at northcoastchurch.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> What mobile device policies do you implement?  Do you require device unlock
> passwords? etc?
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> Dave Ketcham
> North Coast Church
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