Security as a niche industry is starting to get noticed. There are a number of organisations that have written and published security applications of one sort or another for the PDA world with the enterprise in mind. Of these Credant has one of the best reputations in the market. They have got years of experience and a solid product with several offerings to cover both enterprises and medium sized businesses.
The Credant Mobile Guardian (CMG) is sold in three forms. The personal edition is marketed through OEMs and is the software that is available now on the HP iPAQ business devices (including the iPAQ hx4700 series). Personally, I'd love to see this available through retail channels such as Handango and PocketGear, but this is not the case at the moment. The group edition is the one reviewed here and is aimed at organisations that want to apply security policies consistently to the devices in their organizations. Finally there is the enterprise edition which is considerably more expensive and provides remote destruction and a number of other features that may appeal to the enterprise organization.
Features
No two Windows Mobile security applications are created equal. If you look at the feature sets of the security applications on the market today, you'll find disparate feature sets between the applications. Some have built in firewall, some don't, some enforce restrictions on storage card, infrared and Bluetooth, others don't and so on.
This article will be looking at the following features and how Credant Mobile Guardian helps defining and applying them:
Policies
Authentication
Device Lockdown
Encryption
Logon/Logoff
Device deployment
On the device
Policies
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