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

by Stephen Fried (Author)

Demonstrating how mobile devices can create a backdoor to security threats, this book details actions that can be taken to defend against these threats. It defines the concepts essential to understanding the security threats to contemporary mobile devices, and takes readers through the policy, process, and technology decisions that must be made. Highlighting the risks inherent when mobilizing data, the text supplies a proven methodology for identifying, analyzing, and evaluating these risks. It examines the methods used to store and transport mobile data and illustrates how the security of data changes as it moves from place to place.

Author Biography

Stephen Fried is a seasoned information security professional with more than 25 years experience in information technology. For the past 14 years, Stephen has concentrated his efforts on providing effective information security leadership to large organizations. He has led the creation of security programs for Fortune 500 companies and has extensive background in such diverse security issues as risk assessment and management, security policy development, security architecture, infrastructure and perimeter security design, outsource relationship security, offshore development, intellectual property protection, security technology development, business continuity, secure e-business design, and information technology auditing. A frequent invited speaker at conferences, Stephen is also active in many security industry organizations. He is a contributing author to the Information Security Management Handbook and has also been quoted in Secure Enterprise and CIO Decisions.