Mitigating the Risk of Mobile Data Loss on iOS Apr2012 - Sponsored Whitepaper

Mitigating the Risk of Mobile Data Loss on iOS

Corporate data has moved to the mobile device. Mobile IT professionals need to mitigate the risk of data loss by extending data loss prevention programs, compensating controls, and employee education initiatives to include mobile devices. Even the well-intentioned insider still needs to be educated and continually reminded of his or her responsibility to protect company data, regardless of how it is stored or accessed.

There are three primary ways mobile devices receive corporate data:

Through e-mail and especially attachments, which are the biggest exposure Through enterprise apps that cache data locally on the device Through web-based file downloads

This document summarizes best practices for mitigating risk and demonstrating compliance on iOS using the MobileIron platform. These best practices should be incorporated into existing data security initiatives and can be deployed with the current production release of MobileIron when used with iOS 5 devices.