Patent ID: 8552833

Claim:
A security system for managing electronic information stored on mobile wireless devices, the security system comprising: an exit system configured to: detect that a user has requested to exit a building, detect that a particular mobile wireless device is in proximity to the user; and a device management system configured to: determine, based upon at least user information for the user and mobile wireless device information for the mobile wireless device, whether the user is authorized to remove the mobile wireless device from the building, in response to determining that the user is authorized to remove the mobile wireless device from the building: determine policy data for the user that specifies attributes of electronic information that the user should not remove from the building on mobile wireless devices, determine, based upon the policy data for the user, electronic information stored on the mobile wireless device that satisfies the policy data for the user, cause the electronic information stored on the mobile wireless device and that satisfies the policy data for the user to be rendered inaccessible, and allow the user to remove the mobile wireless device from the building.