It started out as a simple call to the help desk from an engineer at one of our major development centers: Phone calls were being dropped. Soon, similar complaints were coming in from other engineers, as well as from sales associates, who said the inability to maintain phone calls was making it difficult to close deals.
Thank you, Target! It's a pity that security managers have to capitalize on other organizations' misfortunes to broker change within their own enterprises, but the notorious Target breach of late last year just might get me some things I think my company has needed.
We looked into mobile device management (MDM) in 2012, but the time didn't seem right. Now, some 18 months later, things have changed, and MDM is looking more like a good fit for us.
Security incidents are a complete disruption of my normal day-to-day activities. I love them. I especially like it when they uncover systemic problems we might not otherwise have found out about. We had one of those this week.
Every fall, I conduct a policy review. I think it's a good idea to have this on my calendar, because no policy, no matter how well crafted, is meant to last for all time. New standards arise and old ones are modified, making some policies deficient. Or a security incident, an audit or some business reality that was previously unacknowledged emerges to demonstrate how a policy falls short.
After a DDoS attack was discovered by chance, 'later this year' is too long to wait.
Our manager finds the time and opportunity to cross a few nagging items off of his to-do list.
BlackBerry plans to release a larger tablet and two phone-tablets, or phablets, over the next year, according to a leaked roadmap presentation slide.
An assessment of the information security department shows that it has a lot of growing up to do yet.
With Outlook Anywhere, users can download their mail to untrusted PCs and leave sensitive documents behind.
Our manager has a long wish list going into this year's budget season.
A competitor suddenly seems to know a lot about the customers of our manager's company. Did a former employee take sensitive data when he left?
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My company has outgrown its offices and will be moving to a new facility next year. While the company as a whole will have more space, the data center will shrink to less than half the square footage it now occupies. The goal is to decrease the data center footprint by 60%.
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