According to Prakash Panjwani, senior vice president of business development for Certicom, which develops security software for PDAs, companies are now seeking the same level of security with PDAs that they once sought for laptops. "In the past," says Panjwani, "these were consumer devices that snuck into the enterprise. You got it as a gift, and then you started downloading corporate information and your IT managers didn't even know about it. Now that has changed because [companies] realise that the ultimate responsibility is the IT managers'."
Although the financial value of the hardware isn't devastating, the value of the information can be. The idea of a stranger having access to your personal data may be distressing, but the possibility that somebody could access presumably security corporate information is enough to give any CEO nightmares.
