“Everybody is
adopting [mobile]
devices, and we want
to be comfortable
with giving people
more access than
email.”
JODIE SWAFFORD, INFORMATION
SECURITY OFFICER, CLAYTON HOMES
limited to a few simple back-office
automation applications, such as
email, calendar and contact.”
Executives at the company are
discussing new functionality for
mobile products and how to grant
that, through the deployment
of additional software that will
centrally manage security policies
and in turn give employee devices
greater access to applications.
“We’re exploring which applica-
tions are in the highest demand by
our employees,” Titus says. “We’ll
target those for mobile app enable-
ment, first making them available in
an app store for download.”
Some companies are severely
restricting what their employees
can and can’t do with their mobile
devices, in order to ensure that critical data is protected.
At Clayton Homes, a provider
of manufactured homes, the vast
majority of the 1,500 employees
who use iPads, iPhones, Windows 7
phones, BlackBerries, Android-based devices or other mobile
equipment use the devices for voice
communication, to access email via
a secure mail server, and to access
the Internet for applications such as
showing customers home products.
Even though these mobile products can’t gain entry into the company’s network, Clayton has concerns
about their security, says Jodie
Swafford, the company’s information security officer. Clayton uses an
email security product from Proofpoint to encrypt messages that are
sent and received from the devices.
“Anytime any business transaction or customer data goes back
and forth [from a mobile device],
we’re using Proofpoint to secure
the emails,” Swafford says. “That
way, we can be certain it is being
