23 April 2008
According to an article on intergovworld.com usability plays an important part in mobile security.
Although the consequences of a data breach can be far-reaching and complex, in almost every case the cause is simple. The 'average user', has either taken a shortcut around the security procedures or lost a device with critical data in a public place, or both.
However two companies in Canada think they have come up with the solutions.
WinMagic have created a solution called SecureDoc that encrypts data automatically and invisibly, no matter where it is - on desktops, laptops and PDAs, on all the portable media like USB drives and sticks, as well as on DVDs and CDs.
Another Canadian IT security company, Ottawa's CRYPTOCard, focuses on simplicity by replacing fixed passwords with token-generated, one-time-only logins. When a simple user name and password login isn't good enough.
Both WinMagic and CRYPTOCard have seized the idea that usability is critical. As Randy Sutton from WinMagic says, "It has to be simple enough for people to use without thinking, and I mean without thinking. Just the same way you would use your BlackBerry or pick up the phone to make a call. It has to be like that."
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