Are technical privacy controls a substitute for responsible human behavior? In the business environment, management leadership from the front on data security and privacy is a more effective (as in cheaper and stronger) countermeasure than technology when it comes to mitigating trusted insider threats. In the family environment, we traditionally see parents as responsible for …
Read more »Courtesy of Cloud Computing Topics - Olafur Ingthorsson Android 2.2 is now fulfilling the minimum enterprise security requirements, i.e. device locking and remote wiping – amidst a long list of other enterprise cloud computing must-haves. It seems that with the latest Android release, v. 2.2, Google is stepping into the enterprise mobile cloud computing realm with …
Read more »I have over 2,300 contacts on my iPhone and like any reasonable person, I wanted to backup my contacts. I figure my iPhone wont last forever. Like a fool, I thought it might be a good idea to test the restore process also. The Ubunutu One service based on Funambol doesn’t really work so that …
Read more »A recent post “Can smartphones replace credit cards” wonders whether or not consumers are ready to trade in their plastic for their cell-phone. Mobile payment technology has been around for about 10 years and it has not really taken off in a big way – although there are niche applications. In Tel Aviv for example, …
Read more »For my Israeli readers – הדבר היחיד שיותר גרוע מלהיות לא רציני זה לצאת פרייר. I’m collecting data for a couple of articles on data security in social networks and ad-hoc mobile networks so I’ve been a little slow on blogging lately – so I’m down to general management and risk management stuff. I think …
Read more »Is your 50-something IT manager the last one to know about the company getting acquired? An extremely obvious yet perhaps unpleasant observation for over-40 IT managers is that under 30 employees know a lot more about technology and ways to bypass the company security safeguards than they do. A young, hip, mobile and techology-facile workforce …
Read more »I was looking at the CSI 2008 security survey recently and noticed that the top three loss categories are fraud (number 1), viruses (number 2) and data loss (number 3). I’m a little dubious about viruses landing up in the number 2 slot. We haven’t even installed anti-virus software on our office workstations in the …
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