Credent shuts down that Windows phone's camera, Bluetooth, et al.

We know how wary enterprises can be of potentially subversive technologies such as cameras, Bluetooth, mass
storage, etc., infiltrating the workplace—in fact so much so that most business-class devices have taken to making
two versions, one with and one without a camera, for instance. Enter Credant’s Mobile Guardian Enterprise Edition
software solution; short of blocking people’s phones from entrance, this is one of the only policy enforcement
techniques we’ve seen that makes sense and might actually work. Based on permissions defined in your company’s domain
servers, your policy-enabled PocketPC device not only gets its data encrypted, but can have its camera, Bluetooth, or
infrared communications temporarily disabled while on site. Sounds good to us, since the last thing mobile employees
want is to have to give up functionality in their devices when they’re not even sitting in the office.



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