Blog Posts Tagged with "Mobility"
Making Sense of Split Tunneling
January 20, 2013 Added by:Patrick Oliver Graf
Split tunneling is not a new concept in the realm of remote access networking. The technology emerged in the 1990s to allow VPN users to access a public network and a LAN or WAN simultaneously. But despite this longevity, its merits and security continue to be disputed...
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Why You Should Care About Mobile Security: An Infographic
November 24, 2012 Added by:Fergal Glynn
No matter what you believe, you need to understand the security threats that come along with BYOD and how to best protect yourself and your business against them. Join Joe Worker and Joe IT as we walk you through the basics of BYOD and mobile security...
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BYOD: Mobile Security Tips for Small Businesses
September 16, 2012 Added by:Robert Siciliano
If you choose to use your personal device for work purposes, at any time, for any reason, your employer will more than likely want control over that device. This means that, again, your employer may have remote capabilities to monitor activity wipe your device’s data...
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Will the Rise of Tablets Affect Security Measures in the Workplace?
September 11, 2012 Added by:Robert Siciliano
While your company’s IT guy has a relative hold on the work laptops and desktops, and even some of the mobiles, he is quickly losing control when you bring your new Droid and connect it to the corporate network. Now he has to worry if that last app you downloaded will infect the network...
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Data Mobility and Security Biggest Cloud Computing Concern
September 10, 2012 Added by:Bill Gerneglia
BYOD issues continue to cause headaches for IT departments. Security mandates grow exponentially as they struggle to prevent data leaks from private networks onto public clouds. The biggest concerns with public clouds are the loss of data and control of the location of that data...
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Will Your Smartphone Become your Wallet?
September 05, 2012 Added by:Allan Pratt, MBA
Will all smartphone users feel comfortable transforming their them into wallets? What about security? What if you lose your phone and the person who finds it hacks into your accounts? Now, these cool capabilities don’t sound so impressive. In fact, there are some serious consequences...
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Get a BYOD Policy Now
August 09, 2012 Added by:Michelle Drolet
There’s no one-size-fits-all solution. In creating a policy you have to consider what devices to support, how much access to give them, and what kind of budget to allocate. Do you have specific compliance issues? Are you willing to subsidize data plans or device purchases? How do you ensure company data is secure?
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BYOD - Challenges of Protecting Data - Part 4
August 07, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
When it comes down to it, BYOD is only possible if you've got the basics of data-centric security right. You know, protecting the actual data rather than trying to build elaborate structures around the things that work with that data in order to compensate. Let me explain...
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BYOD: Challenges of Protecting Data - Part Three
August 06, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
BYOD is going to take the many small holes in your environment and drive a semi truck through them... blowing a hole the size of a Buick in what security we have now. And it's not just because BYOD is going to happen whether you like it or not - but because we need to fix this train wreck we call corporate security...
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BYOD: Challenges of Protecting Data - Part Two
August 01, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
Productivity is nice to talk about when you can sit at home and read your corporate email on your tablet, or mobile phone - but what if that device is ridden with malware, or hijacked to be part of a botnet, there are very serious security and productivity implications there. Let's expand on this a bit...
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BYOD: Challenges of Protecting Data - Part One
July 30, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
Whether we're talking about cloud computing, or BYOD, or hacking in general - the buck stops with data. Some believe you can't ever classify all of your data and you should move on, while others believe that without making data custodians responsible for classification of critical data nothing else can happen...
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BYOD is a Bunch of FUD
July 16, 2012 Added by:Marc Quibell
Times have changed , and I'm not talking about the technologies involved. I'm talking about the rules and regulations we have to follow, and the best practices we as employees must abide by - as opposed to the days of the old briefcase - when it comes to protecting the data with which we are entrusted...
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Feds Release Digital Government Strategy
June 22, 2012 Added by:Headlines
The Federal government released The Digital Government Strategy, a 12-month action plan for the deployment of new technology is designed to enable the delivery of digital information and services anytime, anywhere, on any device, safely and securely-throughout the Federal workforce and to the American public...
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Shadow IT - Why Security is Scrambling to Reinvent Itself
April 16, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
Shadow IT is the leading cause of many of the "reinventions" that IT organizations across the globe are going through. For many CIOs the ground is moving underneath their feet, and if they're not actively moving to counter it, there are some very serious consequences...
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Data Loss Prevention Step 6: Encrypting Data at Rest
February 06, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
Even if you did know where all your critical information is, you'd probably be powerless to control its sprawl. Let's face it, systems consume data and then become mobile - which is hardly something you can do anything about in a world where mobility is a key business driver...
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The Impact of Mobility on the SMB Workforce
November 04, 2011 Added by:Bill Gerneglia
Small and medium businesses are increasingly more mobile as their employees are demanding increased access from both the home and the road like never before. SMBs face a wide range of challenges when it comes to providing this access for these mobile workforces...
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- Five Things Your InfoSec Team Should Do in the Next 30 Days
- The Disclosure Debate Continues….. (part 1,453, 769) to be Continued
- The Danger of Mixing Cyber Espionage with Cyber Warfare
- Improving Security by Failing Faster
- BYOD: Should It Be the Wave of the Future?
- Trend Micro Discovers "SafeNet" - a New Targeted Espionage Operation Online
- Managing My Company’s Security is a Nightmare
- Bridging the Cybersecurity Divide, Why Security Innovation Must Lead the Way
- The Evolution of Industrial Control System Information Sharing
- ATM Security (And Really Learning from the Past)