Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
Detecting the rogues While the BYOD DMZ incentive solution works for those that have not accessed the network before, there may be users that have already illicitly accessed the network. If they refuse or are otherwise unlikely to change their system setting to use the new “official” method, you’ll have to find these rogue devices…
by Jim MacLeod, Product Manager at WildPackets While the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) to work is a growing trend within the IT world, the main issue is that consumer-friendly technology is changing the way people want to work. Smartphones have provided mobile email for a decade, but the market has moved from business phones complete with corporate…
by Brian Duckering of Symantec Throughout the modern history of business, there have been countless technological innovations that have improved the way companies work. However, a few stand out from the rest in their capacity to disrupt the status quo. Perhaps the most obvious recent examples of such technological advances are the PC and the…
by Michael Rushinsky of Sallie Mae What are the highest security risks and threats that are coming down the pike facing all market verticals and why? How do CISOs effectively and efficiently manage the ever-evolving information security risk landscape and adequately mitigate that which we cannot control? As I and several other information security executives…
The security challenges facing businesses and consumers in 2012, will begin to merge as “always-on, always-connected” gives way to “hyperconneted” — a world where mobile devices double as everything from ATMs to heart-rate monitors, credit cards and network access endpoints. “The proliferation of Internet connectivity, mobile devices and Web applications are helping to enrich lives…
Teleworkers, defined as people who work from home at least one day a week, are finding their niche as technology and corporate attitudes continue to enable this growing trend. According to a recent survey from Staples Advantage, the business-to-business division of Staples, telecommuters say they feel and work better when working from home. In fact,…
CIOs are used to be told to “do more with less”. It’s an annoying, frustrating cliché, yet it’s one CIOs must live up to. Budgets can only be slashed so far, though, and in a terrible economy like this one, jobs are a cost center that sometimes can’t be sustained. Or at least that’s the…
Interop, one of the few remaining vendor neutral events left standing, is a massive affair and it’s easy to get lost in the fanfare. If you want to get the most out of this year’s New York City show running Oct. 18-22, plan ahead and map out your agenda. To help you choose from the…
While the cloud is taking the data center by storm few are noticing the thunderhead rolling in over mobile management. Perhaps since IT has successfully mastered mobile evolution to this point, it presumes “mobile-in-the-cloud” is just more of the same. To a degree, that presumption is understandable as the cloud does move smartphones closer to…
I recently asked a Google spokesperson about how Android stacks up in the enterprise. She insisted that the Android is a consumer device – for now. “We plan to support more enterprise applications and features on top of our existing structure in the future, but we don’t have anything specific to share at this time,”…