IT Departments Say "No" to iPhone
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Gadget Lab has a post today about IT departments and their reluctance to do anything to prepare for the upcoming iPhone launch. Citing a Wall Street Journal Article, David Becker writes:
Despite scads of requests from employees who want to access work e-mail on their new wonderbrick, most network guys say there's no way they're going to go through the hassle and security risk of rejiggering their servers to support iPhone access. Main workaround seems to be funneling work e-mail through a third-party conduit such as Yahoo Mail.It's been a long time since I worked in a corporate IT department, but when I did it was against policy to auto-forward one's email to any place. The thought being that you weren't there to screen the email for confidential material and therefore you could inadvertently distribute that information to outside sources. And yes, I did know one person that got fired for doing that very thing.
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posted by Russell @ 4:21 PM,
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