When free Wi-Fi is expensive [Part 3]
Wednesday, August 8th, 2012 Han Dong, Sr. Product Marketing Manager
The past two weeks I’ve talked about the important need for Wi-Fi, but we also need to realize the dangers Wi-Fi can bring!
Here is reason number three to get the iPass Open Mobile Client and get more value from your employees’ smartphones.
3. When “Free Wi-Fi” isn’t really “Free.”
Often no one questions the security or reliability or even performance of Free Wi-Fi. Free is, after all “Free” – so you sorta get what you pay for.
Of course what if “Free Wi-Fi” is really a hacker pretending to be a free access point, allowing you to connect, and thus record keystrokes in an attempt to hijack your userIDs and passwords? You could just NOT logon to any sites that are financial/banking related or cloud-storage services that contain sensitive corporate data or facebook or email…
You can see where this is going. At a certain point, “Free Wi-Fi” is all of a sudden potentially MORE expensive than paid Wi-Fi, especially if user credentials get in the wrong hands. Why risk logging on to risky “Free Wi-Fi?” Choose only vetted hotspots with good reliability and performance, and you made a very important decision to protect and secure sensitive data.
Join us next Wednesday when we discuss: 3G/4G data caps (and International roaming) limit what apps and functions we can do on smartphones and tablets.
Tags: Open Mobile Platform, Security, wi-fi access
