What Keeps You Up At Night?
Posted by George Pasley on February 22, 2008
CIO has posted the Nine Consumer Technologies CIOs Fear:
1. Portable Storage Devices
2. Consumer E-Mail
3. Instant Messaging
4. Social Networks
5. Smartphones
6. Remote Storage
7. Digital Cameras
8. Web-Based Productivity Applications
9. VoIP Clients
The article goes into more detail about each of the technologies. I was glad to see iPods mentioned in the portable storage devices part. As I’ve said before, those little things could carry all of your financial data in the palm of a hand.
theozz said
George,
You are right on with the concern for the “portable storage devices” category needing to include iPods and other digital music players. From a government security perspective, there is also the concern that many of the iPod competitor devices have digital voice recorders built in and can be used to record confidential or classified conversations from within a shirt pocket without anyone’s knowledge. Unfortunately, you don’t see these things mentioned in the list of prohibited devices along with cameras, cell phones, and two-way pagers when entering a classified area.
FYI…I am a coworker to your lovely wife. She gave me your blog URL and I added you to my Google Reader. Please tell her I said hello.
Hank Osborne (aka TheOzz)