Asus Fastest Smartphone and the Shifting Ways of Thinking about Security
Asus announced that is has released the fastest smartphone and the press release just reminds me how fundamentally computing, and security around it, is changing.
Here's an excerpt from the press release that gives a sense of the phone's functionality (pardon the marketing hype-tone):
The ASUS P565 is geared toward the business community. ... The fast processor renders the P565 particularly amenable to multitasking, while Glide enables users to switch between tasks rapidly with their fingertips. The P565 also comes with a potent suite of business-oriented features and software, including push mail, business card recognition and Microsoft Office Mobile. Other useful applications such as Anytime Launcher and Multi-Home enable users to view their calendars, the times of local and visiting cities, weather reports, online news and much more ...
Smartphones are essentially full blown client devices, as powerful as some PCs we had on our desktops not too long ago. From and IT security perspective, these are unmanaged devices. Employees, not the company, typically own these yet employees expect to access corporate systems with them. And, oh yea, those corporate systems aren't necessarily running on your hardware much longer. Cloud computing, powered by virtualization, is just too economically compelling to ignore. Security in a business is becoming less about locking down machines (which we no longer own or manage) and more about protecting information.
Security isn't getting easier and there will be more, not less work for security professionals. It will be different though. Security in business will have a more data-centric and less device centric center of gravity.



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