Security of Postal Service Smartphones

The U.S. Postal Service issued approximately 27,000 smartphones to its employees to provide telecommunication and connectivity to its information systems and work-related applications. Although smartphones offer opportunities to improve business productivity, they also introduce the risk of cyber threats that could compromise sensitive Postal Service data. Given the level of access a smartphone offers to its internal network, it is imperative the Postal Service appropriately secures its smartphones to mitigate the risk to its data and systems.