Tag Archives: BOYD

BYOD is not popular with most UK organisations McAfee reveals

Published on Monday, July 16th by Hans Cett

Rating: Smartphones still not seen as proper business tools

There has been a great deal of buzz around ‘Bring-Your-Own-Device’ (BYOD) schemes as some suppliers and observers would have us think. These facts emerged from a recent survey of 100 IT professionals from UK organisations, carried out by security specialist – McAfee. We know that BOYD is popular with employees – asked if their users valued certain devices over others, 89 per cent of those surveyed claimed that this was the case. However, these IT professionals are pretty scared of letting mobile devices into their environment. Continue reading →

Posted in BYOD, RIM, mobile security, nokia, tablets | Tagged BOYD, McAfee, Raj Samani, Security | 1 Comment

SANS claims first ever survey to assess mobility risk

Published on Monday, April 2nd by admin

Rating: The dangers of BOYD will be exposed

On April 12th [2012] SANS Institute will be releasing the results to its first annual survey on mobility security. The organisation is planning to release full results and a link to a copy of the report during a webcast on that date. The survey was actually launched back in December [2011], and claims to be the first ever mobility survey to discover if and how organizations are managing risk around their end user mobile devices. What SANS has already discovered is that only 9 per cent of organisations surveyed felt they were fully aware of the devices accessing corporate resources. Additionally, half felt only vaguely or fairly aware of the mobile devices accessing their resources. Continue reading →

Posted in Featured, mobile security | Tagged BOYD, Deb Radcliff, Kevin Johnson, MOBILITY, SANS, Security | 1 Comment

An Android/iOS app that spies on employees’ smartphones

Published on Thursday, March 22nd by Tony Dennis

Rating: Copy9 crosses line between data protection and snooping

When we stumbled across Copy9‘s range of mobile apps, we really weren’t sure whether they were genuine or malware. The company itself describes the product as ‘spyware’ and cites child protection; monitoring cheating spouses or errant employees as reasons to install its apps. The catch is that you have to provide the Copy9 app will exactly the kind of capabilities you would for a nasty piece of malware. So we asked our old buddies at mobile security software specialist, avast! Software, their opinion. This is what Alena Varkockova, Android analyst with the AVAST Virus Lab, said. “This app is an example of the thin line between malicious and PUP (Potentially Unwanted Program).” So GoMobile News bit the bullet and installed Copy9 on an old Android handset lent to us by ZTE. The app does what it claims to do. It spies on the handset for you. For free. Continue reading →