You may use a smart phone (like a Treo or Blackberry or iPhone), a PDA (personal digital assistant) or some other mobile device at work. While such devices cannot be secured in the same way as your desktop or laptop computer, you should still take some precautions.
Since smart phones and PDAs are susceptible to a few viruses and similar threats, you should make sure your software is always up-to-date.
If there is information that you wouldn't want others to find if you lost your smart phone or PDA, you should set a password that has to be entered before the device can be used.
If you use a smart phone or PDA to check email, do you have to enter your NetID password each time? If not, then the password is being stored on the device. You should protect access to your email by setting a good, strong password on the device.
Like with your desktop or laptop, you should configure a mobile device so that it requires that you re-enter your password after a certain period of inactivity. Some devices offer the further measure of erasing your information after someone makes repeated attempts to unlock it using the wrong password.
