With some commentators labeling the BYOD trend as unstoppable, organisations are now turning to MDM to ensure the security of their networks. But how should MDM be tackled?
FVC highlights new vendors
FVC ramped up its annual participation in GITEX this year, thanks to the addition of four new vendor-partners to its portfolio.
Intel regroups to address small devices, wearable tech, DIY crowd
Intel is focusing its attention to small electronics, wearable technology and the do-it-yourself crowd, establishing a new business group to address those market segments.
Western Digital’s HGST fills hard drives with helium to inflate storage capabilities
More than a year after first announcing the technology, 6TB helium-filled hard drives from Western Digital subsidiary HGST started shipping on Monday.
Big Data: big threat?
“Collecting more and more unstructured data will open up another whole degree of attractiveness and may well lead to attackers seeing value in a form not previously recognised by the organisation that owns the data.”
Taking the cloud public
No technology has bulldozed its way onto the global scene and promised to revolutionise enterprise IT as much as cloud computing.
Hadoop brings far-flung people together across time and space
With its powerful data mining capabilities, Hadoop is bringing together people across different places and even across different generations.
Alcatel-Lucent appoints Marcus Weldon as President of Bell Labs
Weldon will also continue to be the Chief Technology Officer at the organisation.
Watchguard launches cloud-ready network security visibility
WatchGuard Technologies has announced a zero-install, public and private cloud-ready network security visibility solution.
HP’s department merger aims to ‘revolutionise’ storage industry
HP’s policy of ‘Converged Infrastructure’ aims to combine the departments of servers, storage and networking into one arm of the business.
Survey: younger employees break the rules and put your company at risk
According to a new survey from Fortinet, a majority of younger BYOD employees are more than willing to ignore security policies if they don’t agree with them.
British man charged with hacking NASA and US military computers
A British man has been charged with hacking into US government computers and stealing personal data about thousands of employees, then bragging about it on Twitter.
Logicom names new director of sales and marketing
Logicom has appointed Nicholas Argyrides as Director of Sales and Marketing. He will be responsible for driving sales at Logicom …
NSA spied on 35 world leaders according to leaked document
The US monitored the phone conversations of 35 world leaders, according to a National Security Agency document provided by its former contractor, Edward Snowden, according to The Guardian newspaper.
Cryptolocker: how to avoid the toxic ransomware and what to do if you get infected
There’s a big threat wiling around on the Internet right now: a particularly nasty piece of ransomware called Cryptolocker.
Lenovo shows Android laptop in leaked user manuals
Accidentally leaked user manuals from PC maker Lenovo show that the company is preparing a new laptop that runs Android instead of Windows.
MI5 head says Prism scandal is handing advantage to terrorists
The head of MI5 has said that the Prism data leaks scandal has damaged the UK’s efforts to counter terrorism.
Network Solutions investigating DNS hijack
Network Solutions is investigating an attack by a pro-Palestinian hacking group that redirected websites belonging to several companies.
Google buys Flutter, a gesture recognition start-up
Google has acquired Flutter, a gesture recognition company whose technology lets people control music and movies on their desktop by waving their hands.
Yahoo abandons T-shirt rewards for vulnerability information
Yahoo will stop giving T-shirts as a reward for finding security vulnerabilities after a public shaming it’s calling “T-shirt gate.”