Data Loss Prevention and Mobility

At Palisade we are often asked how to protect data from loss when your employees and/or partners all have access to your corporate private/privileged data through handy little gadgets like iPhones.

The problem we are finding is that gadget vendors have not provided hooks into the devices so we can do DLP on the gadgets directly.  In fact, software on iOS devices is intended to be quite isolated to prevent any application accessing information that belongs to another application, such as email messages or stored PDFs.

Enter some pretty cool software from Whisper Systems for Android systems.  WhisperCore looks very intriguing:

WhisperCore integrates with the underlying Android OS to protect everything you keep on your phone. This initial beta features full disk encryption and basic platform management tools for Nexus S phones. WhisperCore presents a simple and unobstrusive interface to users, while providing powerful security and management APIs for developers. 

 Will be looking into this more deeply :-)  Maybe this would encourage Apple to provide hooks for similar software into iOS.