The Symantec Smartphone Honey Stick Project
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Executive Summary...............................................................3Introduction .....................................................................4Objectives........................................................................6Methodology.....................................................................8Key Findings ....................................................................11Expanded Findings and Conclusions...............................................12Recommendations...............................................................14About the Researcher ............................................................16About Symantec.................................................................16Appendix .......................................................................17
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Executive Summary
The Symantec Smartphone Honey Stick Project is an experiment involving 50 “lost”smartphones. Before the smartphones were intentionally lost, a collection of simulatedcorporate and personal data was placed on them, along with the capability to remotelymonitor what happened to them once they were found.Chief among the findings is that there is a very high likelihood attempts to accessboth sensitive personal- and business-related information will be made if a lost andunprotected smartphone is found by a stranger. Secondarily, the owner of a lostsmartphone should not assume the finder of their device will attempt to make contactwith them. Even when contact is made, the owner of the device should not assume theirpersonal- or business-related information has not been violated.The goal of this research is to show what smartphone users should expect to happenon their phones if they are lost and then found by a stranger. In today’s world, bothconsumers and corporations need to be concerned with protecting the sensitiveinformation on mobile devices. While devices can be replaced, the information stored andaccessed on them is at risk unless users and businesses take precautions to protect it.
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