Watch out for fake MDM and ‘age restriction’ attacks on iPhones
Attackers use iOS age restrictions to hide real apps and force victims into using a malicious one.
Attackers use iOS age restrictions to hide real apps and force victims into using a malicious one.
IBM has rolled out its Watson cognitive capabilities to do battle with rival enterprise mobile device management (MDM) platforms.
Many businesses are investing heavily in increasingly-commoditised mobile device management (MDM) tools that are failing to address the real issues facing organisations trying to securely utilise mobile devices, the head of BlackBerry’s security software efforts has warned as the company signed on a raft of new ANZ clients.
David Braue | 04 Nov | Read more
The threat of employees bringing their own smartphones and software to work was entirely overblown. But consumerisation can still be headache.
The global market for antivirus solutions is already full of competitors, but the founder of Adelaide company PC Range is confident that a white-branding strategy and the addition of cloud-security capabilities later this year will help his SecuraLive security suite carve out a good portion of the market.
David Braue | 28 May | Read more
Microsoft is rolling out new mobile device management (MDM) features as part of an update to Office 365, which offers broad protection for iOS, Android and Windows Phone devices.
Android may rule consumer smartphone shipments, but it’s getting trounced in the enterprise. So is Google’s new enterprise mobile security plan up to the task of raising Android's measly share of the enterprise? The answer may lie in the diversity of "the enterprise".
Just because BYOD has become standard operating procedure in most workplaces doesn't mean the practice has stopped causing challenges for IT.
Ellen Messmer | 14 May | Read more
Many workers who bring their mobile devices to the office don't care about security, which is forcing IT leaders to take action. Some CIOs offer stipends to help cover mobile expenses in return for BYOD compliance. Others are choosing to throw the kill switch on lost or stolen smartphones.
Tom Kaneshige | 07 May | Read more
One of the challenges facing today's IT departments is providing secure access to corporate systems. These might be locally hosted applications or cloud services that the business needs to access from smartphones and tablets.
Anthony Caruana | 14 Mar | Read more
At the RSA Conference today, security start-up Skycure plans to disclose a vulnerability in Apple iOS devices that can impact mobile-device management (MDM) systems running on them.
Ellen Messmer | 27 Feb | Read more
Network World tested hundreds of products in 2013, but here are our top 10 tests of the year. In order to make the list, the product review had to be a comparative test of multiple products in a single category and it had to break new ground or deliver fresh insight into an important product area.
Neal Weinberg | 11 Dec | Read more
The K-12 private education Paideia School in Atlanta now hands out about 550 Apple iPads each year to students for classroom teaching and homework purposes. And while students love them, some parents are now pressing the IT department to restrict use of apps on the devices because they think there's too much game-playing.
Ellen Messmer | 21 Nov | Read more
Going into 2014, a whirlwind of security start-ups are looking to have an impact on the enterprise world. Most of these new ventures are focused on securing data in the cloud and on mobile devices. Santa Clara, Calif.-based Illumio, for example, founded earlier this year, is only hinting about what it will be doing in cloud security. But already it's the darling of Silicon Valley investors, pulling in over $42 million from backer Andreesen Horowitz, General Catalyst, Formation 8 and others.
Ellen Messmer | 14 Nov | Read more
IBM Wednesday announced an agreement to acquire Fiberlink Communications, saying the purchase is a key part of a broader mobile-security strategy to provide assurance in transactions conducted via devices such as iPhones and Android smartphones.
Ellen Messmer | 13 Nov | Read more