InfoWorld: Mobile security: iOS vs. Android vs. BlackBerry vs. Windows Phone

As Samsung pushes to be 'enterprise class' and BlackBerry seeks renewed business buy-in, which platform provides the security you need?

By Galen Gruman
SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

The BYOD phenomenon is old news, with support from most companies. For IT organizations, that means ensuring proper security and management over the mobile devices employees are likely to use. In the last year, Apple's iPhone and iPad have become the new corporate standards due to high user satisfaction and superior security capabilities.

But Samsung has been aggressively promoting its SAFE (Samsung Approved for Enterprise) extensions to Android to bolster its reach into businesses wary of Google's historic lack of concern for security and the rampant malware on Android devices. SAFE targets the first concern. BlackBerry, once the IT darling due to its hundreds of security capabilities, is also trying to gain corporate respect with BlackBerry 10, which supports basic Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) policies out of the box (a first for BlackBerry), as well as a rich set of security features in its retooled BES 10 management server.

Then there's Windows Phone 8, the third version of Microsoft's attempt to deliver a popular smartphone OS. It's historically given little heed to security concerns, but Version 8 endeavors to satisfy basic business security concerns.

Mobile security falls into two fundamental forms: Microsoft's EAS policies and native APIs.

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