Mobile Device Security: A Comprehensive Guide to Securing Your Information in a Moving World

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Mobile security for enterprises is a problem that is top of mind for technology managers in leading companies today. Mobile Device Security by Stephen Fried is an excellent introduction to the issues of managing security in mobility-enabled enterprise environments.Mobile Device Security is built around a methodical approach that managers can apply for thinking through information security issues in the presence of all kinds of mobile devices; not just smart phones and tablets, but also laptops, portable drives, thumb drives, writable CD and DVDs, and even PDAs (remember those?). The author follows the standard risk-based methodology of first understanding the organization's information assets, classifying the assets according to their value, assessing the risks to these assets, then evaluating the various controls (directive, deterrent, preventive, detective, and physical) that can be applied by the organization to provide the appropriate level of security to these assets.While a good deal of the book describes technology controls such as VPN, encryption and mobile device management, the discussion is product independent, meaning the information in the book will hold up well even as product offerings and features change. It also has an excellent chapter on building the business case for mobile security, which should be useful for anyone who needs to sell management on mobile (or indeed any) security technology. The quality of the writing and editing reflects the high quality of other CRC Press books I've read. This book is a useful reference for anyone faced with implementing solutions for mobile security in the enterprise environment.

This is not a comprehensive guide. It is comprehensive, but not a guide. The author thinks about all possibilities and then wastes your time explaining those possibilities ad infinitum, but never providing any sort of direction, dare I say, GUIDE about how to go about doing that. This was a bad idea to not be platform specific, to not even provide an example to a platform problem. Hate to burst this guy's bubble, but this book is not going to be purchased 80 years from now by someone looking to secure their mobile data. People want to know how to secure their mobile devices now. The author spends two chapters explaining what data is, but strangely, declares in the introduction that his target audience is intended to be high-level technical personnel. Do you really need to explain to high-level technical people the nuance between a mobile device and mobile data? The last chapter of the book should be the title, Building the Business Case for Mobile Security. That's all this book does. This book is not meant for high-level technical personnel, this book is meant for an IT guy who works for an organization whose security policies are lacking and does not know how to articulate the risk to the people that control the budget. This book is not about securing information, it's about thinking about securing information. 260 pages of thinking. I thought about security already, when I bought the book, now tell me how. Tell me your stories about how, when, and why.

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Scam instructor at DeVry required this book in 2020!Expensive obsolete garbage!It has a BLACKBERRY (old button style) on the coverThis book is about 2009 tech

I couldn't read more than 2 chapters. It's dry and wordy. It seems like the author has to repeat everything 50 times in 100 different explanations.