www.WirelessFederation.com/news: It has been declared by the security professionals that Apple’s iPhone poses the maximum risk to enterprise’s security as 57% of security workers believed that it is the riskiest of all smartphones.
Android poses 39% risk, 28% risk is posed by Blackberry and Nokia poses 13% risk. According to network security firm, Apple could easily make the iPhone more secure but it continues to do only the absolute minimum to address enterprise security and supportability requirements.
A new enterprise-tailored security feature has still not been introduced by Apple since hardware level encryption in mid-2009 and even that feature was almost immediately compromised. In response to the potential threat posed by smartphones, 58% of the enterprises have already implemented a smartphone security policy to mitigate risk; however, just 65% of these enforce that policy in practice.
Demonstration of a way to hack the iPhone’s SMS database within 20 seconds by a security researcher at the CanSecWest Security first highlighted the vulnerability of the iPhone last week.