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  • Mobile application security best practices to protect corporate data

    Mobile applications can't perform well unless they're built on a rock-solid foundation. But practical mobile application security measures, such as good mobile device management and stored data encryption, can mitigate the risks of mobile app...

  • Employee mobility: A leap of faith for IT admins

    Francis Poeta used to rely on his laptop. Now he never travels with it.

    The transition was a slow one. For a while, Poeta carried both a laptop and an ASUS Transformer tablet to customer sites. He began using the...

  • How mobile device encryption works to protect sensitive data

    Mobile device encryption offers an easy fix for the problem of data breaches, which are the top threat posed by lost or stolen smartphones and tablets.

    Encryption is a reversible process that scrambles data into...

  • Softphones provide better communication flexibility for BYOD era

    Enterprise mobility has begun to impact the way IT departments deliver unified communication systems, and may result in more companies moving to softphones.

    The notion of a one-to-one relationship between a workplace phone extension and a...

  • How consumer-grade wireless routers can fit in the business world

    On a couple of occasions over my two decades in wireless, I have seen small businesses deploy consumer-grade wireless routers in their network infrastructure. When I asked the administrators about (what I considered to be) their rather surprising...

  • Personal hotspots let users bring their own Internet

    The personal hotspot, or MiFi, makes it a snap to connect to the Internet at near landline speeds, which is why it's public enemy No. 1 in some corporate IT departments. Fighting it, however, is a losing battle.

    The

  • Essentials: Threat detection

    Antivirus and intrusion prevention aren’t the threat detection stalwarts they used to be. With mobile endpoints and new attack dynamics, enterprises have to be nimble on the security front in order to keep data safe and attackers at...

  • Android app security FAQ: Keeping devices safe from Android threats

    IT can’t really control the apps on users’ Android devices, and malware is one of the biggest Android threats. But fear not: There are ways to get a handle on Android app security.

  • Olympic Games bring mobile device security concerns to forefront

    Mobile devices pose a security risk for enterprises because they are easily lost or stolen, and thousands are expected to disappear during the Olympic Games in London this summer.

    Approximately 60,000 mobile phones will be lost or stolen...

  • How to plan for BYOD security

    Securing an IT environment is hard enough when administrators have full control over the hardware on a network, but a BYOD program can exacerbate that...

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