Apple iCloud's Security Challenge
Memo to tech departments that were caught flat-footed when people started bringing their iPhones to work: You'd better get ready for the iCloud.
As with the original iPhone, it's easy to see why a lot of workers would want to use the iCloud for both personal and professional use. Let's say you've been working on a presentation all day and you want to bring it home to edit. Instead of doing so the old-fashioned way -- i.e., lugging your company laptop home with you, e-mailing it to yourself or putting it on a flash drive -- you'll soon be able to have it pushed out automatically to all of your iCloud-capable devices, meaning that it will be ready for you on your iPad when you get home.
"iCloud treats the PC as just another device now," says Patrick Wheeler, a senior product marketing manager for endpoint security at Trend Micro. "It becomes just another thing from which you may be accessing data, so it can let users be productive and access business documents on any of their devices."
