I respectfully submit you've got it wrong.
In my planning, the primary security concern of Palm Pilots is indeed information theft. Plams are, to my knowledge, not a know virus vector (this
will no doubt change). However, all of the users that I deal with who have Palms have loaded them with a plethora of contact info (e.g. Act!), meeting
notes, expense reports (e.g. Quicken), etc. Much of this represents extremely sensitive information. Unfortunately, the Pilots are far to easy to steal
or loose. I've even found users that should know better are using their Palms to store text passwords and/or generate S/Key passwords with
insuficient protection. You can get a SecurID soft-token program for the Palm now as well.
I firmly believe that IS groups need to take great care to address the info threat potential of the Palm. There are number of data protection measures
that can be taken. Users should also be educated as to the threat.
- Ken
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