You might have seen a little bit of chatter last week about a program to help with mobile security in enterprises that Symantec kicked off called “Symantec Sealed.” Framehawk is one of the partners involved in the program. In fact, our CMO Brad Murdoch was onstage during last week’s events discussing Symantec Sealed at their [...]
After thinking about my piece on BlackBerry and the reasons for their strength in the enterprise, I realized why Samsung cannot claim victory with their new KNOX model. They are missing something. There are many good and critically important things about the Samsung KNOX. Both Ryan Faas’ article in CITEWorld and Jack Madden’s article at BrianMadden.com are good reads about the impact of dual [...]
I have been watching the BlackBerry announcements and strategy analysis with the same curiosity that many in our industry share. Whether you are Canadian, wish-to-be-Canadian, or aware-that-Canada-exists, if you’ve spent the past 15 years in the technology marketplace, you likely have a soft spot for the Waterloo firm that broke the mold for personal productivity. [...]
Apparently the folks in charge of mobile security at large organizations these days don’t trust anyone. Or anything. And I’m betting that’s not such a bad approach. We ran a webcast recently about mobile data security and asked a few questions about the state of mobile security that ended up being pretty telling. We asked [...]
The flurry of new mobile devices continues. Consumers (who look a lot like your employees) love them. And they naturally want to use them in their (er, your) enterprise IT environment. And that’s where the problems start. It seems like it would be simple to introduce tablets and other mobile devices into the enterprise. But [...]
You know the conventional wisdom: if you’re using mobile devices, the best way to secure enterprise application data is some combination of locked-down devices and strong data security measures. However, both IT and users know the truth that comes with these approaches: they ratchet up hidden costs while killing user experience and productivity, all in [...]
We’ve been checking off the various dos & don’t for bringing enterprise applications to iPads and other mobile devices. There are a lot of them. So many that our CTO Stephen Vilke did an entire webcast about the topic (summarized in this white paper). Last week I brought up mobile security. The issue that goes [...]
People turn to vastly different sources to predict the future. A crystal ball. Tea leaves. The Mayan calendar. Industry analysts. Those sorts of things. For IT trends, I like to look at patterns from the past year. It may not be 100% foolproof, but we all know how the predicted Mayan end-of-the-world thing turned out, [...]
The latest in our series of 7 dos & don’ts for bringing enterprise applications to iPads is likely so self-evident – and important – that it probably should have been listed first. The topic is mobile security. No surprise. In fact, not thinking about how to avoid unauthorized access and data breaches would indeed be [...]
It’s funny, BYOD is like that Far Side cartoon “la la la la Spot! la la la la.” What an IT manager hears when people talk about BYOD is “la la la la la UNTRUSTED la la la.” Why? Because, the very fact that IT did not issue your mobile device makes it an “untrusted” [...]