STRIKING A BALANCE
Diana Kelley, founder and partner at consultancy SecurityCurve, believes many companies end up trading robust data protection for "anytime, anywhere" access. "The cost of doing business is always pretty high--think of acceptable shrinkage [damage, loss or theft of inventory] in retail," she says. "In today's world, data loss is one of the costs of doing business anywhere, anytime, on almost any [mobile] device. Limiting risk means limiting access; each company has to decide where that line needs to be drawn."

However, establishing a strategy that addresses mobile device diversity appears to be critical. According to Gold, many companies don't really have a strategy--they either ignore non-standard devices or deal with them ad hoc.

"The first step is building a [more comprehensive] strategy," says Gold. "Talk to users about what they want, what they need, and tell them what you can do for them. When there are enough people using a given exception, then you can test it and secure it and bring it onto the corporate standard list. It's an evolutionary process."

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