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Security Challenges Posed by Mobile Devices

Mobile devices pose security challenges by allowing information and access outside physically controlled environments. As mobile device use increases, challenges exist at both the device and organization levels. Key security issues involve managing registry settings and configurations, authentication, cryptography, directory access protocols, remote access servers, media players, and network application programming interfaces. Establishing trusted groups through proper registry settings, like group policy, is important for security. Baseline mobile security may not be fully configured without additional registry changes beyond typical settings and policies.

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Security Challenges Posed by Mobile Devices

Mobile devices pose security challenges by allowing information and access outside physically controlled environments. As mobile device use increases, challenges exist at both the device and organization levels. Key security issues involve managing registry settings and configurations, authentication, cryptography, directory access protocols, remote access servers, media players, and network application programming interfaces. Establishing trusted groups through proper registry settings, like group policy, is important for security. Baseline mobile security may not be fully configured without additional registry changes beyond typical settings and policies.

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Security challenges posed by mobile

devices:
Mobility brings two main challenges to cyber security:
1. On the hand- held devices, information is being taken
outside the physically controlled environment.

2. Remote access back to the protected environment is


being granted.

Perceptions of the organization to these cyber security


challenges are important in devising appropriate
security operating procedure.
As the number of mobile device users increases, two
challenges are presented:

1. One at the device level: microchallenges


2. Another at the organization level: macrochallenges
Well known challenges in mobile security:
Managing the registry setting and configuration
Authentication Service Security
Cryptography Security
Lightweight Directory Access protocol(LADP)
Security
Remote Access Server(RAS) security
Media Player Control Security
Network Application Program Interface (API) security
1.Registry settings for mobile devices:
example
Microsoft Active Sync : synchronize windows- powered
PCs and MS Outlook
Active sync act as the gateway between Windows-
Powered PC and Windows mobile-Powered device,
Enables transfer of Outlook information, MS Office
documents, pictures, music, videos and applications
In addition to synchronizing with PC, Active sync can
synchronize directly with MS Exchange Sever so that
the user can keep their E-Mails, calendar, notes and
contacts updated wirelessly.
In this context, registry setting becomes an important issue given the
ease with which various applications allow a free flow of information.

The registry or Windows registry is a database of information, settings,


options, and other values for software and hardware installed on all
versions of Microsoft Windows operating systems.

 Thus, establishing trusted groups through appropriate registry


settings becomes crucial.

 One of the most prevalent areas where this attention to security is


applicable is within “group policy”.

Group policy is one of the core operations that are performed by Windows
Active Directory
There are one more dimension on mobile device security:

New mobile applications are constantly being


provided to help protect against spyware, viruses,
worms, malware and other malicious codes that run
through n/w and the Internet.

Microsoft and other companies are trying to develop


solutions as fast as they can.

According to the experts, the core problem to many of the


mobile security issues on a Windows platform is that the
baseline security is not configured properly.
When you get a computer installed or use a mobile
device for the first time, it may not be 100% safe.

Even if users go through every Control Panel setting


and group policy option, they may not get the
computer to the desired baseline security.
Managing the registry setting and
configuration:
Even if the user go through every control panel
setting and group policy option- no desired
baseline security

So make additional registry changes that are not


exposed to any interface: avoid “registry hacks”
Example

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