Ian Hatton, a Consulting Systems Engineer with Motorola's Enterprise Mobility business, has over 20 years of experience in the mobile computing market — most of which he's spent working with Motorola partners throughout Europe providing technical pre-sales support across the region. Ian will present "Managing User Access to Applications on Enterprise Mobility Devices" at the upcoming MOTODEV Summit in London. MOTODEV recently caught up with Ian and asked him a few questions about his session and about enterprise mobility security.

Q. Why is your session important, and what will attendees learn?

A. This session will cover the options available to developers to control user access to the Windows Mobile device. This is important in terms of restricting access to non-approved applications, therefore ensuring that the system is both easy to use and secure.

Q. Is application access for users a central focal point for developers in the enterprise mobility space?

A. Yes. Controlling access to the underlying operating system is an important part of an enterprise application deployment.

Q. Is this access control limited solely to the UI?

A. No. Access control also deals with disabling applications which can run in the background, such as ActiveSync.

Q. How does the application access picture fit into the overall security scheme for enterprise devices?

A. It is an important part of the overall security of the device since it will ensure that security is not compromised by running non-approved applications or by changing some of the default settings on the device.

Q. What kind of applications are the most susceptible to security problems in the enterprise?

A. Any application which can access the IP stack is a potential security issue. This includes email clients, browsers and instant messaging clients, just to name a few.