“Apple still needs to address some specific needs, though, before it can expect to make serious inroads in the corporate world. First, Apple needs to lock the bootloader to eliminate jailbreaking. Despite features like remote wiping and on-device encryption, these can be disabled as long as the iPhone can be jailbroken. Jailbreaking can also defeat any security policies put in place by IT staff,” Foresman writess. “Also, Apple needs to offer enterprise a tool to control and manage iPhone over-the-air.”
Foresman writes, “With improved security and remote, OTA management, the iPhone could become a first-class enterprise mobile device.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Edward W.” for the heads up.]
just a matter of time…The enterprise needs the iPhone more than they know
Beefier security?
From a vegatarian…?
Lettuce just hope the bean counters don’t squash the celery of those working on security, leaving eggplant ed on their faces as they burrow their pea sized heads from reality while leaving Apple in a pickle.
Maybe they are hashing it out but garden the progress until the fruits of their labor can be produced.
I hope this wasn’t so corny that it spoils the thread….
Stupid question from the peanut gallery: Can’t Blackberries be hacked/jailbroken as well?
I am so glad I work for a company instead of one of those “corporate enterprises”. Still not entirely sure what that means, but everything I read about them makes them seem utterly dismal.
The security is already good enough.
IT guys are useless, productivity-killing dinosaurs that are in the way of today’s generation in the enterprise. They need to be kicked out of the way, bïtchslapped down.
@Towertone
Ahhhhh! I laugh and laugh! Orange ya glad you’re such a comedian?
X:
You forgot for that for the most part they are provenly incompetent too…
Last week, my organisation migrated to Lotus Notes 8.5.1. The significance is that it includes their ActiveSync component (The “Lotus Notes Traveler”). As soon as they completed migration, virtually ALL of our IT guys re-configured their iPhones (every single one of the guys has one) for access. So far, it seems to work well. The main kicker is, the CIO is asking (practically demanding) that his iPhone also be re-configured, so that he can ditch the standard-issue Blackberry. At present, we have some 50 Blackberries in the fleet. I suspect, six months from now, the Blackberry vs. iPhone score will be 0 – 50.
It seems that Notes 8.5.1 has all the necessary functionality that we used to have with BB (mail, calendar, tasks, global address book), so we’re in business. Since we also have a few Java developers in the IT group, they are already salivating at the prospect of picking up iPhone SDK and developing custom apps for internal use.
I’m sure most enterprises have stereotypically rigid IT folk, drenched in Windows-Blackberry toxic waste, but there ARE places where the attitude is refreshingly open.
@ HMCIV
Sure you can, but what’s the point?
Than again: I earn a living bolting spoilers to Zavastas…
@ Ladafan,
Why does an AK47 need a spoiler?
I’m hoping that the next iPhone will be multicore and allow some 3rd party apps to use the extra core for background tasks. When that happens, it will be unstoppable.
Yes, Radius, I just had to throw out that rotten food for thought.
But I digest….
Big Al
You are russian to conclusions.
Zavasta was a blood thirsty Mexican general that ate raw meat, or something.
Sorry to be a spoiler….
are not all phones able to be jailbroken?
@predrag…lotus …oooff! my apologies. hopefully it is a whole lot better than previous versions, sooo sloooow and backwards. I had to suffer through that one at my old job.
What all the enterprise pushers miss is that Apple benefits from jail breaking (about 5,000,000 iPhones have been jail broke worldwide). This will remain true until iPhone is available just about anywhere, as long as you are on a GSM compatible network.
Besides, iPhone is making it into the enterprise without Apple having to do anything. To make a push into the enterprise Apple is going to have to hold hands (increased expenses lower profits) and lower prices for volume buying (lowers profits).
If this was Apple’s goal they would have done it with Macs long ago.
@ TT,
A Zavasta is a Yugoslavian made AK47. The Yugoslavs made the best AK47s on the market. Much less prone to jamming.
Any terrorist worth his salt owns a Zavasta. The question is, what’s a spoiler doing on a Zavasta? Is spoiler just a poor translation for flash suppressor?