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The iPhone 3G is still not ready for large-scale business usage, even when considering all the enhancements announced this week by Apple Inc., one analyst said today.
Most enterprises should wait before broadly deploying and supporting the iPhone," writes Jack Gold, an analyst at J. Gold Associates in Northborough, Mass., in a newsletter published for clients and released today.
Gold listed several limitations, the most important being a lack of data encryption native to the device, which would make the data on the iPhone vulnerable if it is lost or stolen.
Gold also described a lack of device management and end user policy settings to enable IT to manage the device, deliver applications and set policies, such as the ability to turn off the camera if required by company policy.
A concern raised by some IT managers who heard Monday's announcement about iPhone 3G was the lack of an over-the-air means to deploy enterprise applications.
Gold also mentioned this concern about application distribution and said that if an enterprise must deploy applications through the App Store, it would require the business to go through an Apple server "which is generally unacceptable for mission critical and/or proprietary apps." Apple said enterprises could also use iTunes through a workstation, meaning a wired connection to the iPhone would be required. But Gold said many businesses don't want to do that.
Gold said the limitations means that businesses should deploy the iPhone 3G only as the exception, for example, for executives who demand it, and that IT staff will need to find add-on applications that make it secure. One example of how this might work is to deploy Sybase Information Anywhere software for e-mail deployments on iPhone, he said.
"IPhone will seep into the company, but will require special handling if it is not to represent a security and data protection risk," Gold said.
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These security issues is not related with just only iPhone, but also other cellular phone devices which are serviced onto 3G(generation) mobile service. In Korea, we can come in touch with the 3G service promotion commercially in the mass media such as TV commercial, newspaper advertisement and others. So many Korean people knows this 3G service, for example, SK Telecom‘s T-Service, KTF’s Show Service, and LG Telecom’s OZ. These Korean 3G Services is same as the case of iPhone. And this Korean 3G model is not included with enterprise usage so much as iPhone’s one.
And I hope next generation mobile service will be provided with solution for this security issues and more enterprise usage functions.
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