Government Agency Ditches BB for iOS

So, I guess this means Obama might be turning his customized BB in for an iPhone in the near future. Probably won't be a problem, since he already has the iPad 2.


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I guess if I were a business owner, I would get my employees iphones too. Uncustomizable, I would have piece of mind knowing they aren't messing with all the settings, loading custom stuff on there, etc...to a phone I am paying for!

 

I agree that iPhones running stock iOS are limited as far as customization goes. However, a jailbroken iPhone is a whole other animal. If you can prevent your employees from jailbreaking their iPhones you can maintain its security. Don't know if this is posable, though?


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Two great minds thinking alike as I was just posting my thoughts on this. JB is so easy, I don't know that a company has the ability to block this.


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If I could, I would!!

The only one allowed to mess is meeee!

 

Don't know about this either. Calling VIEWFLY! VIEWFLY! Is there a way to BLOCK being able to jailbreak an iphone?

 

To the best of my knowledge the only way to block JB is to close down the iOS exploits that allow JB in the first place. Don't think anyone but Apple can do that...

A good question (that I don't know an answer to) is whether it is possible to detect that the iPhone has been jailbroken. If it is, then it will be possible to prevent a JB device from accessing your network by implementing additional protocols (such as custom VPN).

However, the most likely reason the companies go with iPhone or BB over something like Android is that it is easy to standardize and will probably not bother with this additional customizations. Why do it if you can have an OOB solution?

 

^ Some people might use a company iPhone as their personal phone as well. Stock iOS might become bothersome after a while given you can't do much with the device itself. These are the people that I could see being the most likely to attempt JB.


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If there was, Apple would be doing it already, free of charge.

The best way is for a company to detect it. That shouldn't be too hard.

But from what I've seen in companies, that are highly secure, they allow BB, iPhones and Androids. They are mostly concerned about lost of the phone, so a 4 digit locked screen password is required for company mail to be used.

Irish Rose...iPhones are still very useful non -JB You can even post to WA forums...that seems useful, oui?

 

I disagree with the use of the word "very" here. Yes, any iPhone is useful for some things. However, it offers very little to the user in the way of cutomization. For that one does have to JB. Btw, yes, I can post on Wireless advisor, however, if my 4S wasn't JB I would not be able to "Swype" my reply as I am doing now. I paid $850 for my Factory unlocked 4S and I will not let Apple dictate how I can use it.


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The simple fact is companies don't want employees customizing devices that access the corporate network.


A reason to standardize on a single platform like iOS would be corporate customized apps (e.g. accessing company inventory). You need to just write a single app that works across every device, without having to worry about what version a particular employee is running.

As this grows, I think the JB situation would be dealt with by remote apps that allow corporate admins to wipe and reset devices back to factory defaults. Add in company policies that punish people who bring a jailbroken phone onto the company network and you'll deter all but the most ardent hackers.