(Brad Reed, NetworkWorld) Like all good things, the increase in speed and power comes with greater risks: added data capacity, connection speeds makes 4G smartphones more vulnerable. This article describes what any smart IT department should know before allowing a 4G device onto its network.

The increased mobile data usage is only expected to intensify in the enterprise as more executives could try to use their favorite devices for both work and personal use. Mike Siegel, a senior director of product management at McAfee, says this will put a particular strain on IT departments' abilities to protect data across multiple operating systems and applications. "We have senior executives now who are pushing on IT to support Android or iPhone," he says. "With iPhone and Android, you have a propagation of applications that have connections back to sensitive corporate data in the cloud. So these devices now are very much a data leakage vulnerability."

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