TAG | Gartner: iPhone 3G good but security concerns abound |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Thursday, 19 June 2008 | |
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Page 3 of 3 When it comes to mature security, Gartner says that “many security advocates require at least two things: 1) time to let the platform percolate within the community of hackers to demonstrate it can resist threats, and 2) access to the platform's insides by third parties, which can assess whether additional add-on measures are required to make the platform secure (as a form of check and balance). Therefore, “comments from market watchers that the iPhone will compete head-on with the BlackBerry are premature.” Gartner also looks into the addition of WPA2 Wi-Fi and Cisco VPN support, looks at the iPhone Configuration Manager and questions whether “iTunes can pass enterprise tests as a mission-critical application because it was developed primarily for consumer music transfers” among other issues. In terms of the iPhone Halo Effect, Gartner says that “Enterprises will find that the Apple Xcode development environment will begin to creep into their organisations” and that once “Apple has this foothold for important developers, the inclusion of Mac desktops and notebooks will begin to be requested if not implicitly accepted.” Therefore, “enterprises must evaluate such longer-term impact of a commitment to iPhone and may need to determine the consequences of admitting the Apple development environment.” In addition, Apple’s true commitment to “Enterprise Support” is yet to be determined. MobileMe is praised although the cost is questioned, and the “bottom line” for Gartner is that Apple still needs to be examined to see if it lives up to its claims but that “the iPhone is a phenomenon in the computing industry and should be recognized as such.” The full report with much more detail is available at Gartner’s site.
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