BYOD Gives Vulnerable Devices Corporate Network Access

Policies allowing employees to bring their own devices to work BYOD have the unintended consequence of increasing the total number of vulnerable devices connecting to corporate networks and accessing corporate data, a report released today by Rapid 7 said. While the general consensus says that BY...

Cellular IDS Enables Monitoring of BYOD Devices for Malware

Organizations struggle with securing consumer mobile devices in the enterprise because A they don’t own the device; and B mobile traffic often isn’t accessible to network managers making it difficult to scan for infections or anomalous behavior. At DEF CON last weekend, a team of researchers...

DoD Inspector General Calls Out Army CIO For Poor Mobile Device Security

The CIO of the U.S. Army failed to put in place a comprehensive security program capable of protecting data stored on commercial mobile devices such as iPhones and Androids, leaving sensitive information in key Army installations exposed. The Inspector General of the Department of Defense took th...

Adrian Stone on BlackBerry Security, Privacy and the Challenges of BYOD

Dennis Fisher talks with Adrian Stone, the head of security response at BlackBerry, about the new security model in BlackBerry 10, the partition between private and work data and the challenges of dealing with app developers who might not know a whole lot about security or privacy. Download:...

Malnets to Continue Targeting Mobile Devices in 2013

Cybercriminals tested the water in 2012 with malnets — collections of domains, servers and websites designed to deliver malware -– and appear poised to target mobile devices even more so in 2013, according to a new report released yesterday. Blue Coat Systems’ 2013 Mobile Malware Report PDF posit...

Infographic: Veracode on Mobile Security and Protecting Your Device

Veracode have put out another snazzy infographic, this time to help illustrate the mobile computing boom of the last few years. To accompany the BYOD Bring Your Own Device policy that’s becoming commonplace in offices around the world, the web security firm uses two characters, Joe Worker and Joe...

MatrixDAR - First Military Grade Encryption for Android

AuthenTec, a leading provider of mobile and network security, today introduced a new security offering that provides military-grade encryption to data stored on today's Android smartphones and tablets without sacrificing device performance. AuthenTec's MatrixDARTM for Android meets the stringent...

BYOD Survey Results: Employees are not playing it safe with company data

Employers are seeing a drastic increase in the number of employees using personal smartphones and tablets in the office. This "Bring Your Own Device" BYOD trend is causing headaches for the IT department and there is no stopping this trend. Due to the sensitive nature of company information often...

Mobile Device Adoption Outpacing Security

Some 63 percent of mobile device users are unsure about whether they trust the security of mobile technologies, according to Juniper Network’s Trusted Mobility Index PDF. That lack of certainty is appropriate considering that 30 percent of IT professionals in the study told Juniper Networks that...

Data Privacy Day 2012 – BYOD

January marks Data Privacy Month and on January 28th we celebrated Data Privacy Day. In the past year, we have seen an increase in the consumerization of IT and "Bring Your Own Device" BYOD in the enterprise. In honor of Data Privacy Day 2012, we have partnered with The Center for Identity at The...