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More and More Workers Are Bringing Their Personal Mobile Devices to The Office Daily
Jul 23, 2013More and more workers around the world are bringing their personal mobile devices to the office daily, and companies appear to be having trouble keeping up with the trend. About 60 percent of organisations acknowledged they either don't ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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Enterprises Are Cutting Costs and Increasing Efficiency Through BYOD Programmes
Jan 25, 2013According to Good Technology, enterprises are reporting they are cutting costs and increasing efficiency through BYOD programmes. Organisations around the globe are slowly but surely implementing BYOD schemes in the workplace. Good ...
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Businesses That Are Slow to Support BYOD May Risk Being Left Behind
Jan 24, 2013According to a Dell Quest Software report released this week, businesses that are slow to support BYOD (bring your own device) or are constrained by a device-centric approach may risk being left behind. Its recent global BYOD study, which ...
Tags: Dell Quest Software report, BYOD, device-centric approach
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10 Articles Illustrate Some of Key Challenges and Strategies Around Information Security
Dec 28, 2012Enterprise IT security professionals faced increasingly sophisticated, stealthy and dynamic threats in 2012, but numerous surveys revealed that knowledge and understanding of the latest attack techniques are lacking in many organisations. ...
Tags: IT security, user security awareness, IT industry, cyber
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UK Workers Drived Use of Consumer Devices and Risked Being Sacked as a Result
Dec 27, 2012A group of UK workers are driving the use of consumer devices in the workplace and are risking being sacked as a result, according to research. A Unysis commissioned survey of over 350 workers and over 95 IT decision-makers in the UK, ...
Tags: UK, consumer devices, IT decision, IT
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General Manager for Europe at E-Discovery Firm Guidance Software,Says Guidance Software
Dec 24, 2012If attackers want to get in to an organisation's information systems, they will, says Frank Coggrave, general manager for Europe at e-discovery firm Guidance Software. "Many IT departments still have their heads in the sand on this issue. ...
Tags: information systems, IT departments, security investments, Software
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BYOD Programmes Provided The Most Radical Shift in The Economics of Client Computing
Dec 20, 2012Bring your own device (BYOD) programmes have provided the most radical shift in the economics of client computing for business since PCs invaded the workplace, according to research conducted by Gartner. BYOD is an alternative strategy ...
Tags: BYOD, cloud computing, Gartner, mobile devices, tablets
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A Survey by IT Security Association ISACA Polled More Than 4,000 Members From 83 Countries
Nov 21, 2012Nearly half of all companies in India have security policies prohibiting employees using their own mobile devices for work purposes,a survey has revealed. A survey by IT security association ISACA polled more than 4,000 members from 83 ...
Tags: India, BYOD, mobile devices, ISACA's research
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Businesses Opens Themselves up to Security Threats by Failing to Manage BYOD Programmes
Oct 24, 2012Businesses are opening themselves up to security threats by failing to manage bring-your-own-device (BYOD) programmes properly. According to a study of 4,000 workers, carried out by Ovum, 80% of corporate BYOD schemes are "inadequately ...
Tags: security threats, BYOD, Ovum, BYOD schemes
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Samsung Galaxy Tab Is Not Suitable for Enterprise Use Due to Its Serious Security Failings
Oct 5, 2012The Samsung Galaxy Tab is not suitable for enterprise use due to its serious security failings,according to security specialist Context Information Security. Research conducted by Context Information Security examined the three most ...
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Gartner Has Urged CIOs to Move to Windows 7,Rather Than Attempt to Migrate Directly to 8
Sep 24, 2012Unless businesses plan to deploy larger numbers of tablets,they should avoid moving directly from Microsoft Windows XP to Windows 8. With support for Windows XP due to end in April 2014,many organisations face the task of migrating to a ...
Tags: Gartner, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows XP
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MDM Is Not About Security, According to Eric Green
Sep 13, 2012Mobile device management (MDM) is not about security, according to Eric Green, senior vice-president of business development at security firm Mobile Active Defense Partners. "There is no security in MDM; its ability to secure a device is ...
Tags: MDM, BYOD, ISC, Eric Green, mobile security
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Nearly Half of Enterprises Allow Employee-Owned Devices to Connect to a Company's Network
Aug 9, 2012Nearly half of enterprises that allow employee-owned devices to connect to a company's network have experienced a data breach, a study has revealed. Most of these companies reacted by restricting data access rights (45%) or installing ...
Tags: employee-owned devices, company's network, data breach, security software