Smartphone security and the new iPhone
In this article from eWeek, the author discusses the security issues that IT managers must consider when deploying the new Apple iPhone, Blackberry devices from RIM, or any other smartphones. The article describes one CIO that only allows certain kinds of smartphones on his organization’s network, and even then only allows them to do certian things. It goes on to talk about the iPhone SDK for the iPhone OS 2.0, saying that all applications that will put onto these devices will have digital certificates signed by Apple. If an application is malicious or otherwise considered malware, it can have it’s certificate revoked and it can be removed from the App Store.