iPad is becoming increasingly popular in the enterprise: it’s a new and fashionable device to read mails and documents, arrange meetings and expose your presentations and probably your top management is pushing IT dept. to acquire and deploy the new platform. It could be a good solution or not but our mission is to secure the device improving overall security. To do this we need to implement or enforce security features: setting up devices manually, creating your personal security profile using IPCU (iPhone Configuration Utility) or installing a third party suite.
IPCU is available for Mac OS X and Windows platform. Using this tool you can create a profile (based on XML) for your mail, vpn, security settings and more to be transferred via iTunes, mail or HTTP/HTTPS on your devices. You can choose to encrypt the configuration using a Digital Certificate. I have made some test using an iPad 64Gb WiFi + 3G and iOS 4.0.2
The purpose of the test was to create an iPAD platform that supports the following features:
- Push Mail connected with Exchange Server
- Intranet access
- Device Encryption
- Application Control
- Password Protection
- Wiping
Please upgrade your firmware to the last available. Actually I’m testing 4.0.2 (multitasking, Cisco AnyConnect Mobile support, PDF vulnerability fix and more…)
