{"id":1625,"date":"2011-01-29T13:55:37","date_gmt":"2011-01-29T21:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cosaint.net\/?p=1625"},"modified":"2023-02-27T09:37:24","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T09:37:24","slug":"smart-phone-insecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/smart-phone-insecurity\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart Phone (In)Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1120\" title=\"cellphone2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.empowerbpo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/cellphone2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/cellphone2.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/cellphone2-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Even if you don&#8217;t issue your staff with smart phones, and you prohibit them from storing sensitive data on them, they&#8217;re still very likely to use them to exchange emails and to talk about about business matters.<\/p>\n<p>This short post from CSO Online &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/659764\/shmoocon-2011-your-android-s-dirty-little-secret\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">ShmooCon 2011: Your Android&#8217;s dirty little secret<\/a> &#8211; is a useful reminder that everyone needs to be wary of 3rd party applications for smart phones, and also to be generally aware that smart phones are really just hand-held computers and thus subject to most of the security threats that PCs are exposed to. And it&#8217;s not limited to Android-based phones &#8211; iPhones and Blackberries are also vulnerable.<\/p>\n<p>Whether or not you officially support smart phone use by your staff, smart phone security is a topic that you really must include in your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/security-awareness-training\/\">security awareness training.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even if you don&#8217;t issue your staff with smart phones, and you prohibit them from storing sensitive data on them, they&#8217;re still very likely to use them to exchange emails and to talk about about business matters. This short post from CSO Online &#8211; ShmooCon 2011: Your Android&#8217;s dirty little secret &#8211; is a useful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infosec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}