BlackBerry used to be the dominant mobile messaging platform in the enterprise, but (by their own admission) they become arrogant as the market leader in the absence of serious competition. Then along came the iPhone and Android on a variety of innovative devices – and several hundred thousand cool applications for both platforms. Then came IT’s decision to more or less capitulate and let consumers dictate the mobile environment...
I spent some time at EMC World last week in Las Vegas. As always, it was time well spent in informative sessions and in individual meetings – and, gauging by the difficulty of traversing the hallways between sessions and after keynotes, the show was very well attended.
Although my bent in visiting a show like this is normally geared more toward security, archiving, encryption and other topics related to what Osterman...
Josh Garza and Dan Kelley, founders of GAW Labs, recently announced VoiceProdigy, a SaaS phone service with a graphically driven management interface. To add users, route call flows, initiate conference bridging, integrate mobile phones, and so on, an admin drags and drops using a WYSIWYG interface; the code is generated dynamically in the background. Thier notion is a phone system in which...
We have contended for some time that many organizations will migrate to a hybrid of on-premises and cloud infrastructure for many of their key systems, such as email, archiving, security, etc. While migrating completely to the cloud for things like archiving is quite feasible and the right decision for many companies, some decision makers want to maintain their data behind the corporate firewall. Reasons might include a...
Since acquiring On2 Technologies in 2010, Google has been waging a battle to unseat the popular h.264 video codec with VP8, a technology it acquired with the On2 acquisition that it intends to release as open-source, royalty-free software. At issue is the cost and ubiquity of video online and in phones and mobile devices.
A good friend in Washington recently posted this on Facebook:
“I follow on Instagram almost all of my 6th grade youth group girls and I am continually amazed at how many of them have public profiles and post screen shots of their personal information. I wonder how many parents actually know what pictures they’re posting and if they really care…”
This is troubling on a couple of levels. First, many...
Most content is not sent or stored with any sort of encryption. For example, attachments sent through email, files sent using many file transfer solutions, form data sent over the Internet, content stored in repositories like file servers, desktop computers, laptop computers, tablets, smartphones, removable storage devices like USB sticks, etc., are not sent or stored with encryption. The result is that a wide range of sensitive or...
I had an interesting discussion last week with AirPatrol, a company coming out of stealth mode, with regard to their solution to address the BYOD problem. Their approach, which they call “Cognitive Mobile Security,” uses location sensors installed within a building that can track mobile devices to an accuracy of 20 centimeters—accurate enough to identify whether a mobile device is in...
Longline fishing is a commercial fishing technique in which a main line of up to several miles in length contains hundreds or thousands of short lines with hooks, each loaded with their own bait. The controversial technique is used to target certain types of fish, such as tuna and halibut, and can efficiently catch thousands of fish with a single deployment.
At RSA, Proofpoint discussed their discovery of what they have...
Most will agree that despite the enormous amounts spent on secure Web gateways, anti-virus software, cloud-based malware filtering and the like, users are still the weak link in the security chain. The primary reason for this is that increasingly they are the targets, often supplying the bad guys with the information they need by posting detailed personal information on social media and other sites. Moreover, bad guys can often...
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