iOS 5 Meets the Enterprise

12.10.2011
Get ready, CIOs! Apple unleashed iOS 5 today, which means employees using iPhones and iPads will be bringing the new operating system to work as soon as tomorrow. The good news is that iOS 5 has plenty of benefits for the enterprise.

Mobile device management vendor MobileIron says iOS 5 streamlines the management of iPhone and iPads and their apps with new security and configuration options. From email security to app security, iOS 5 is a welcome upgrade for IT.

More than a few workers have forwarded corporate email to their personal email. Never mind that a company's user policy strictly forbids this. The native iPhone email app makes it easy to perform this end-around.

Some app developers have tried to get around this via a sandbox approach. For instance, SAP is testing a product that will allow it to send PGP-encrypted confidential email to employees. In turn, employees will be able to decrypt them using a Symantec viewer iPad app, which does not allow forwarding of the decrypted email.