Mobile devices, such as laptops and PDAs, make it possible for workers to access information anywhere. However, enhanced mobility means your data can travel outside the boundaries of your LAN firewall. As more workers use mobile devices to access privileged data outside your organization's secure environment, your security strategy needs to address ways of managing and securing the mobile devices that access and store your privileged data.

This paper discusses issues you can consider when designing and implementing procedures to protect your mobile data, including the security problems of interception of data transmissions, authentication of users, rogue access to data, and lost devices. It also discusses how your security strategy can address these problems.