Sunday, July 10, 2005

Web Search Assignment 1: Locating and Evaluating PDA Security Products

Your assignment is to start at Google and search for at least 10 different PDA security products. These can be anti-virus products, firewalls, encryptions programs or netowkrk interface programs.
Once you have located 10 products, evaluate each of them for applicability to our enterprise environment using the criteria we discussed in class:
  1. Price (including Total Cost of Ownership)
  2. Device Compatability
  3. Support

When you have finished your evaluations, email them to me at extreme.lab@gmail.com

Reading Assignment 2: Identifying the Greatest Threato to PDA Security

Read the article here, specifically the portion which discusses the physical security of PDAs. Your assignment, following the reading is to create a simple 5 step plan to increase the physical security of our corporate PDAs and post that to the comments section of this post.

Reading Assignment 1: Report Cites Growing Threat to Mobile Devices

Read the story entitled, "Threat From Mobile Device Viruses a Sleeping Giant" (LINK) and comment on how real the threat of mobile viruses seems tobe.

Introduction to CPE 451: Corporate PDA Security

Welcome to CPE 451: Corporate PDA Security.

This calss has been created in response to the growing number of mobile devices that are being used throughout our organization. As these devices represent access points into our network, we need to educate users on how to secure these devices and access to our data.

This course will utilize readings, synchronous and asynchronous discussions, simulations and this blog.

The syllabus will be posted shortly but please go ahead and read and comment on the first several posts.