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"Jailbroken devices pose a serious security threat to the enterprise. Even if the end user doesn't intend to load malware, he will be completely unaware of malw
by teilo 16y ago
"Jailbroken devices pose a serious security threat to the enterprise. Even if the end user doesn't intend to load malware, he will be completely unaware of malware present in unauthorized apps."
This implies that the walled garden, by definition, is more secure. Non sequitur. One could argue that the opposite is true:
1) The walled garden is implicitly trusted. This naturally will mean many companies assuming that the applications which Apple approves need no further security review. Apples review is demonstrably far from perfect. One might even call it arbitrary.
2) If companies could create their own "app store" with only reviewed apps, this would be much more secure than Apple's walled garden. This is possible on a jailbroken device with a customized system image.
- Xuzz 16y agoYou can't customize the "system image", but you can certainly write an application that removes the official App Store and only allows installation from the custom "store".
- alanh 16y agoI can’t disagree with you enough. Taking the standard meaning of “jailbroken”, your examples don’t actually work. The whole point is, you don’t just install “trusted” apps from any source, be it the App Store or your hypothetical corporate whitelist, to a jailbroken iPhone. It is a security problem for an enterprise. A jailbroken iPhone poses a risk in much the same way a Windows PC poses a risk — that’s why IT forces everyone to run McAfee. Jailbroken phones will also need malware detection!
- jodrellblank 16y agoI can't tell if you're joking or not, but smartphone antivirus software does exist: http://www.kaspersky.co.uk/kaspersky_mobile_security http://www.kaspersky.co.uk/kaspersky_mobile_security
- Xuzz 16y agoThat's not for iPhone.