Security at the Edge — Protecting Mobile Computing Devices
The business of government is increasingly conducted or supported by mobile computing devices as states adopt these tools to un-tether traditional office workers from their desks or employ them for a wide variety of purposes in the field. Use of mobile devices is so widespread that it is difficult to imagine how state governments can operate without them, given their increased computing power and the ease with which they may be integrated with state networks and databases via the Internet. At the same time, however, mobile devices are unusually vulnerable to loss, theft, mis-use, or misconfiguration, which can and does lead to the loss of sensitive data. Security at the Edge highlights the risks associated with uncontrolled use of mobile devices, and targets the standards and procedural controls that allow state CIOs to better secure them.