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Thursday, January 6, 2011
Five Top Mobile Device Risks and How to Protect Your Business | ITBusinessEdge.com
Sue Marquette Poremba has written many times about how the mobile office increases security risks, particularly via the devices that enable us to work from home or coffee shops or hotel rooms.
ISACA, a leading global association for enterprise governance of IT, also sees the risks involved with mobile devices. The organization recently published a white paper, Securing Mobile Devices. Sue spoke with Mark Lobel, principal, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and ISACA white paper project development team member, about the top five risks for mobile devices and the best ways to secure them. He told her this to start:
The definition of mobile devices is any end point, not just smartphones or laptops or USB. Everybody tends to think of mobile devices as smartphones, but we carry data in multiple ways. And they create different challenges than traditional enterprise computing, where everything is centralized and better protected. It's very hard to drop a mainframe, but it is easy for a device sitting in your back pocket to be destroyed or lost.
This slideshow highlights the top five risks posed by the use of mobile devices and how to establish security measures to protect confidential information.
Click through for five security risks posed by the use of mobile devices and ways to protect your business.
Sources:
http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/the-hard-job-of-managing-mobility/?cs=41193
http://www.isaca.org/Knowledge-Center/Research/ResearchDeliverables/Pages/Securing-Mobile-Devices.aspx
http://www.networksecurityedge.com/content/five-top-risks-mobile-devices-and-how-protect-them
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Fake Microsoft security update spreads Autorun worm | Naked Security
Cybercriminals are up to their old tricks, spreading malware under the disguise of a critical security patch from Microsoft. Learn more, and be on your guard against bogus security updates.
Five Innovations that Could Change the Way We Live, Work and Play | ITBusinessEdge.com
Click through for five technology innovations that could change our lives, as identified by IBM.
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Slideshow: The 10 best smartphones of 2010 | TechRepublic Photo Gallery
With the rise of Android, the reboot of BlackBerry, and the redesigned iPhone, 2010 can rightly be called the year of the smartphone. Here are the 10 elite smartphones of the year.
Six Tips for Deploying iPads in the Enterprise | ITBusinessEdge.com
Click through for six tips on integrating iPad devices in the enterprise from 318, Inc., a technology services company focused on heterogeneous Apple/Microsoft/Linux infrastructures in Fortune 2000 enterprises and SMBs.
Source:
http://www.318.com/
Monday, January 3, 2011
Sunday, January 2, 2011
The Optimist's Creed (Think Positive, Manifest Positivity).
No matter what you may think about The Secret and its philosophies you owe it to yourself to read and consider the Optimist's Creed written almost 100 years ago by Christian D. Larson. Printable version of the Optimist's Creed here:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/46169674/Optimists-Creed
The Optimist's Creed (Think Positive, Manifest Positivity).
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