Gartner tells companies to ban iPods from corporate offices

by billso on Tuesday, 6 July 2004

Tech: iPods are secu­rity risk, warns ana­lyst — ZDNet UK News: Gart­ner is not exactly an Apple fan club. Won­der what Gart­ner will say about the upcom­ing Win­dows media play­ers? “Com­pa­nies should con­sider ban­ning portable stor­age devices such as Apple’s iPod from cor­po­rate net­works as they can be used to intro­duce mal­ware or steal cor­po­rate data, accord­ing to an ana­lyst. Small portable stor­age prod­ucts can bypass perime­ter defences like fire­walls and antivirus at the mailserver, and intro­duce mal­ware such as Tro­jans or viruses onto com­pany net­works, claimed ana­lyst Gart­ner in a report issued this week. ”

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