New Whitepaper Examines Steps Companies Can Take to Secure Sensitive Data Outside the Corporate Boundaries as it Travels Over Mobile Devices and Networks

Framingham, Mass., February 25, 2009 – GlassHouse Technologies, a leading independent IT infrastructure consulting and services firm, today announced the availability of a whitepaper that provides insight on how organizations can protect critical assets against the emerging security threats posed by the increase in mobile and wireless technology use among enterprises.  The “Achieving Data Privacy in a Mobile Environment” whitepaper identifies security challenges that exist in the mobile environment and how organizations can and should rethink security practices to safeguard data.

With the advent of devices such as the iPhone, and the rapid development of 3G mobile networks, today’s workers can remain fully connected to their home office no matter where they are. While advantageous for the worker many instances, this can cause all kinds of headaches for IT. As mobile and wireless technology has evolved, so has a new set of security threats that many organizations are not prepared for.

The GlassHouse whitepaper highlights the threat landscape that now exists for organizations struggling to secure their networks and more their data, as the technology continues to proliferate through the enterprise. GlassHouse recommends a holistic approach that will help businesses move beyond securing just the network perimeter and to start looking more closely at how people, process, policy and technology all impact the overall security of the organization and it’s most critical asset – data.

Specifically, the whitepaper provides the reader with the following background and suggested steps to improve overall organizational security and protect against known and unknown threats caused by mobile and wireless technology:

• Risks Using Mobile Devices
• Challenges in Managing Risks
• A Holistic Approach to Data Security
• Defining Effective Mobile Security Policies
• Ensuring Device Security with Best Practices
• Redefining Corporate Perimeter via Mobile Security Zoning
• Enabling Proactive Mobile Device Monitoring

“The rapid increase in business mobility has led to an even faster increase in the depth and breadth of security threats to enterprise assets,” said Robert Zhang, principal consultant at GlassHouse Technologies.  “Businesses must take a holistic security approach to combat these threats, focusing all points of the organization, not just traditional perimeter security, to ensure the enterprise and its most important asset, data, are protected inside out.”  

About GlassHouse
GlassHouse Technologies is a global provider of IT infrastructure services enabling organizations to consolidate, virtualize, protect and manage their IT environments.  GlassHouse delivers services through TransomSM, a unique delivery framework comprised of proprietary software tools, methodologies and domain expertise.  We reduce costs, decrease risk and improve service levels by providing measurable results and vendor independent solutions. GlassHouse focuses on the storage/data protection, virtualization and data center markets.