The premium version of Documents to Go—the top-selling business app in Apple’s App Store—lets you create, edit, and view Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files stored in the cloud, making it a fantastic productivity tool and extending the power once available only on desktop PCs and laptops to handheld devices and tablet computers. It’s also a compliance problem waiting to happen.
Not to pick on DataViz, the software’s developer. Similar products such as Quickoffice, Office Suite Pro, and Smart Office are equally problematic. As a group, they embody two of the three major types of compliance risks inherent in ultramobile computing: vulnerability to hacking, poor auditability, and shaky data security.
