In a world with an increasing dependence on technology, the rapid user adoption of multiple devices as a way to conduct business productively has quickly become a reality for organizations.
Best Practices for Securing Internal Data Breaches
In today’s business world it is hard to stay ahead of data security threats, and it is even harder when these threats come from internal sources.
Securing Data – From the Law Office To the Courtroom
With LegalTech fast approaching, it’s more important than ever to understand the challenges of maintaining secure productivity while on-the-go.
Negligence or Human Error – A Primary Root Cause of Data Breach
Staffordshire University in UK reported that a laptop containing applicant information was stolen from a car belonging to a staff member. Due to the size of the data file, the information was held locally on the hard drive of the laptop.
Managing Security and Compliance
One of the more common IT headaches in medium to large sized organizations is managing mixed environments. It’s not just different operating systems and software applications but also devices of various form factors, be it servers, desktops, laptops, tablets and ultra-portables, smartphones, etc.
A more BYOD friendly MDM
If Cisco’s forecasts are accurate, in a couple of months the number of mobile-connected devices will exceed the number of people on the planet, and by 2017 there will be nearly 1.4 mobile devices per each person.
Educating Employees Help Keep Data Secure
With the growing world of technology, the IT manager is plagued with the grueling task of technology audits. Audit checks are carefully planned, controls are tested and evaluated, and then reports help identify problem areas to work on. The method in which you choose to audit an organization depends greatly on the organization; nonetheless, one factor of auditing should not be overlooked—the follow-up.
Hot Topics from the RSA 2013 Security Conference
My colleagues and I attended the 2013 RSA Security Conference last week in San Francisco, and with well over 20,000 attendees, RSA was very busy and better attended than in recent years. After the conference I polled my colleagues for their “take” on the event.