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This article is part of the June 2013 / Volume 15 / No. 5 issue of The rapid evolution of MDM solutions
There’s an old adage: Attitude decides one’s altitude in life. This famous saying simply means that your attitude affects your level of success, and the same holds true for organizations when they are implementing and maintaining IT security. Whether we want to believe it or not, every IT worker’s attitude about IT security affects how well our organization, business, or university is secured. And, those attitudes are contagious, shared by the IT department with the general rank-and-file of an organization’s workforce. Even in today’s world, the general IT worker tends to view security as a barrier and a pain. It is implemented by someone else, and it makes their job harder to perform. Look around at almost any IT department and you will see the silos that still exist. We find individuals, or groups of individuals if the company is large enough, that have their own area of specialization. This includes the network group, the database group, the programming group, the middle-layer group, the VoIP group, the system analysts, the system administrators, and the ... Access >>>
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MDM products: More calls to secure a mobile workforce
by Philip Clarke
As MDM products rapidly evolve to support the growth of BYOD smartphones and tablets, security professionals need to rethink mobility policies.
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Are FedRAMP security controls enough?
by Joseph Granneman
Cloud service providers are working with authorized third-party auditors to meet FedRAMP security controls. The 3PAOs tell us how it’s going, so far.
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MDM products: More calls to secure a mobile workforce
by Philip Clarke
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Big data analytics: New patterns emerge for security
by Kathleen Richards
Will big data analytics make security better? With data scientists in short supply, solution providers rush to provide big data analytics tools.
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Big data analytics: New patterns emerge for security
by Kathleen Richards
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Diversity at work: MDM solutions keep pace
by Kathleen Richards
Philip Clarke, co-leader of the Wireless and Mobility track at Nemertes Research, reports on what’s ahead for mobile device management solutions.
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McGraw: Financial services develop a proactive posture
by Gary McGraw, Contributor
The idea behind proactive security is simple: build security in the first time by following security models like BSIMM and security engineering.
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Staff infection: IT security education is contagious
by Doug Jacobson, Julie A. Rursch
If bad attitudes are spreading across the IT staff like germs, better IT security education may just be the cure.
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Diversity at work: MDM solutions keep pace
by Kathleen Richards
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