You can’t help noticing it – people everywhere are using their cellphones, iPhones and Blackberries as much as (or more than) their laptops and desktop PCs to access web content.
This paper from a recent conference on learning technology talks about the implications from the point of view of view of educational establishments (universities and colleges) rather than business. But it’s going to affect businesses and government agencies, as well, as they absorb the millions of teenagers into the workforce over the next few years.
As security educators, this present us with 2 challenges for the years to come.
- We need to think about providing online security awareness materials that are easily accessible to mobile learners.
- We need to educate learners about the security issues that they face when using these mobile devices.
It’s not something that needs to happen overnight, but it’s an inexorable wave that’s going to hit us. So we might as well start getting prepared for it.
(Thanks to David Hopkins for providing a link to the original article in his blog.)
