Remote wipe of Windows Mobile devices connected to Exchange

How can I remotely wipe a Windows Mobile device connected to our Exchange server? Are there policies or security templates I can use? Does anyone have a walkthrough? If someone leaves the company, we want to be able to delete all the company data from our company owned devices. We can do this with...

Using bluetooth to log into Windows 7 machines

If users have bluetooth on their mobile devices and on their laptops, can we use their mobile devices to securely log them in to their laptops running Windows 7?

Mobile troubleshooting and the security and work/life balance concerns

As smartphones continue to make desktop tasks mobile, we've been wondering what apps you're using on your iPhone, Blackberry, iPad, etc. for easier and more convenient remote troubleshooting (e.g. iPRTG app for network management). Are there any security concerns with accessing your desktop from...

Mobile encryption / security

I'm looking for companies developing next generation mobile security and encryption. Any suggestions?  Thank you, Matt

Possible security issues of having Droid phones attached to Exchange 2007

We have some users (Salespeople of course) that are requesting the droid phone. In testing it; I see that we can remote wipe the device but in reality; what about any other data that can/would be indexed by "the Google"? Is that wiped as well? Personally I don't care for having Iphones or droid...

Changing network password on smart phone

One of our employees recently changed his network password. Now, he is having trouble accessing work email through his phone because he must update the password on the phone. I have not yet had the liberty of working on this. Could someone tell me where, on Verizon smart phones, would one go to...

Your mobile device security policy

From a security perspective, how are you dealing with employees that want to bring in their own personal devices? http://searchmidmarketsecurity.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid198_gci1510987,00.html

What kind of mobile device restrictions do you have in your organization?

With the popularity of a diverse range of mobile phones and devices, many organizations have set strict policies and restrictions on the mobile devices employees are allowed to user for work. Whether it's making users choose between a set range of mobile offerings or not allowing mobile devices...

How vulnerable is sensitive information on mobile devices?

I'm quoted in today's Wall Street Journal in a special section on mobile security (page A20) and thought this subject would make for a good topic of discussion on ITKE. We hear story after story, breach after breach, and study after study related to sensitive information on mobile devices being...

j2me merits / demerits

I AM DEVELOPING AN APPLICATION FOR SMS ENCRYPTION USING J2ME.TELL ME THE MERITS DEMERITS OF USING THE SAME AS AGAINST SYMBIAN/WINDOWS ETC .THANK YOU

WEP key for WLAN ( 4 mobile phone use )

im trying to connect to a WLAN using my mobile phone. When i try to browse the web im asked to enter a WEP for WLAN. what does this mean and what should i do?

Enterprise iPhone?

Gartner recently flipped its position on the iPhone in the enterprise. Their opinion changed from: don't use it. To: use it at your own risk, but don't expect much support from Apple. Let's be honest: The iPhone may be one of the coolest gadgets to come along in a while, but does it have a place...

Can the SMS content in mobile phone be hacked?

Can the SMS content in mobile phone be partially changed or the whole message be overrided/replaced by another text? The condition is that SMS is a single message (not concatenated message) and message details such as Service Centre address, Originating Address, Service Centre Submission Time Stamp...

Remote users with VPN client slow access times

I have couple of remote users with VPN clients. From time to time when they are not connected to main site they report that it takes long time to open documents on local machines. Their laptops are attached to domain; I enable logon cache in for 50 logons, via policy. Am I missing anything else? It...

SSID / DHCP isolation

I am interested in installing a second WLAN in a warehouse that should already have another WLAN working. If have an unique SSID, will I have to worry about colliding with the DHCP services on other SSIDs? Thanks, Paul

security problem

Hello, I have small workgroup having 10 computers in my office. I do some personal work in office like using yahoo messenger, checking personal e-mails and some online banking site. But how does one of my senior knows it? I do everything lonely and securely so that nobody in the office knows it....

implementing LAN in mobile phones

hi all, I am a final year Comp. Engg. seeking for a project related mobiles. I need help in implementing an appln. for mobiles which would be much similar to connecting PC's in LAN, i.e making mobiles to share data with the other in its network. According to my thinking this is possible in...

svchost.exe

When I was working with win 2000 advanced server, suddenly it became slower and I started checking the running processes using task manager and I found 4 svchost.exe are running and one of them with PID:916 was using 38000K memory. After sometime the server became normal and everything is OK now....

Multiple Connections - Management

Hello, I am working on a project that we have a deployed a Personal Firewall product on laptop users. The Personal Firewall allows us to define a server based access profile or FW rules for each type of connection and IP range. ie. Ethernet, WLAN etc. The issue is, this personal FW activates BOTH...

Ad Hoc in the corporate environment

I am the LAN/WAN/WLAN administrator for a division of a very large corporation. I just received a Dell Latitude D-600, which has a built-in Intel Pro Wireless 2200BG. We have quite a few D-600's and D-610's. Looking through the wireless security alerts on my switch, I noticed that there were a...