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Apple Journaling - Discoverable By Others on by default
Has anyone in their security department approached someone about disabling this feature. I am in the Health Care field, and they are requesting I lock this down. Overall, this should not be an is...
I have read both articles, my issue is with
If you disable Discoverable by Others and choose not to be included in your contacts’ counts, Prefer Suggestions with Others will also be disabled and Journaling Suggestions will not detect how many devices and contacts are around you to improve or prioritize your suggestions."
Be default, the devices are reaching out to other devices. That to me is THE issue. Enabling something that connects to other device in any way by default without me intentionally enabling it. Opens up potential avenues for exploitation as well, again BY DEFAULT.
Hi,
Agreed, to a certain extent - there are a lot of calls that a iOS device makes over the internet and also locally - for example the find my capabilities, and not all do we enable explicitly. But the main point is, I guess, that the way Apple describes this they do not see this as a Privacy or Security issue. Not sure but that might be the reason there is no MDM setting to disable it.
Agreed, to a certain extent - there are a lot of calls that a iOS device makes over the internet and also locally - for example the find my capabilities, and not all do we enable explicitly. But the main point is, I guess, that the way Apple describes this they do not see this as a Privacy or Security issue. Not sure but that might be the reason there is no MDM setting to disable it.