Corporate secrets are rich pickings on PDAs

Source: Vnunet

Two out of three firms have no PDA guidelines on security Corporate secrets are being left unprotected on personal digital assistants (PDAs), with one in four users not bothering to protect their PDA with a password. The findings are part of a survey into PDA usage by 332 IT and sales personnel, published this week by Pointsec Mobile Technologies and Infosecurity Europe.
PDA owners are commonly found to download the entire contents of their personal and business lives leaving valuable information such as PIN numbers, passwords and customer details unencrypted and without password protection. The survey reveals that 89 per cent of workers use PDAs as a business diary and 36 per cent to store corporate information - with 7 out of 10 who do so leaving it unencrypted.