Promises and Risks in Mobile Communications

The massive and growing use of mobile devices is hitting businesses hard, generating great opportunity and great risks.

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

A report from RSA (The Security of Business Innovation Council), once again brings to the forefront the growth of mobile phone use in businesses for both internal management and to communicate with customers and consumers. Each day more and more marketing and sales operations, support, and production management, involves mobile business applications.

The potential benefits of this situation, including cost reduction and increased productivity, are immense, but the potential risks are also very large, including loss of confidential information, computer viruses, breaches of privacy and security, among other things.

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