RE: PDA Security

["Brian Loe" <knobdy () stjoelive com>]

There is at least one product on the market that MIGHT be able to do this,
since syncing a PC and copy files to a USB (or whatever) device are not the
same thing. However, even if that's viewed, by whatever product you may
find, as illegal, if the PDA software maintains a folder that is also
synched, it might be allowed.

You're better to avoid allowing the user to connect to the workstation at
all via anything. You can do this a number of ways but the easiest would
have to be something along the lines of a blackberry and blackberry
enterprise server. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sf_mail_sbm () yahoo com [mailto:sf_mail_sbm () yahoo com] 
> Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 5:15 AM
> To: security-basics () securityfocus com
> Subject: PDA Security
>
> Hi List,
>
> Is there a way to restrict access of a PDA during a 
> synchronisation such that it can only synchronise with Mail 
> (Calenders, etc) but CANNOT copy other files from the PC?
>
> PC = Windows environment
> PDA = no specific brand, users bring different PDAs
>
> Thank you all for your suggestions/remarks Ronish