I just got done watching Apple keynote announcing the new iPhone 5c and 5s. I’m a mobile phone fan in general and new technology in the industry of any kind excites me. There was a great deal of news from the event but I want to briefly cover the new fingerprint scanner on the iPhone 5s.
With Phone.com being a small business phone service I have SMB’s on my mind a lot. What I got from the announcements is that the iPhone 5s is absolutely the most important device of the year for companies in terms of security. Every week I read or hear another story about how a company lost it’s secret work because some employee left his or her phone at a restaurant or in a cab and inevitably they never thought they would so even though their IT department or boss mandates they utilize the passcode on their phone they thought they knew better and did not.
To let you in on the news if you haven’t read or seen it yet somewhere, Apple has put a fingerprint scanner on their new flagship device. This will enable folks to avoid the delay in unlocking their phone associated with using a password. Now they can just place a finger on the home button and the unlocking magic happens.
What’s important is that now the thought is that users will be much more likely to protect their phone by fingerprint protecting it. The hope is that now all the employees required to lock their phones (plus the ones that are not) will lock their phones and keep their data safe. A recent report found that 79 percent of small businesses experienced mobile security incidents much of this can be avoided if your phone is locked, it’s a deterrent for petty crime which is the most common in terms of mobile phone and in turn data theft.
My hope is that many small businesses will realize that when it’s time to update their companies cell phones they’ll purchase iPhone 5s’s and take advantage of this new implementation of security technology and get their employees using is. Don’t allow your company to become a victim when it’s so easily can be avoided.