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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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Dan Sullivan is a systems architect with 20 years of IT experience that includes engagements in enterprise security, application design, and systems architecture. His experience includes a broad range of industries, including financial services, manufacturing, government, retail, gas and oil production, power generation, and education. Dan’s security-related project work has ranged from requirements analysis for enterprise information security to designing and implementing security for database applications and enterprise portals. Dan has written about information security and other enterprise information management topics for Business Security Advisor, DM Review, Intelligent Enterprise, and E-Business Advisor. You can contact Dan at: dan_sullivan@realtimepublishers.net