Best Practices On Security Of Mobile Devices Recently Issued By NIST

The latest in a series of National Institute of Standards and Technology ("NIST") publications is the Guidelines for Managing the Security of Mobile Devices in the Enterprise (the "Guidelines"), a comprehensive document to help federal agencies manage and secure mobile devices such as smart phones and tablets used by their employees for government business (whether organization-provided or personally-owned) against a variety of threats. In addition to extensively updating NIST's Guidelines on Cell Phone and PDA Security issued in 2008, the Guidelines reflect comments received on a draft version issued last year.

The Guidelines are a valuable resource on enterprise mobile device security for all businesses, not just federal agencies, and are designed to be used by Chief Information Officers (CIOs), Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs), and other information security professionals as best practices when designing, implementing, and maintaining enterprise-level