by Peter Silva

BYOD has quickly transformed IT, offering a revolutionary way to support the mobile workforce. The first wave of BYOD featured Mobile Device Management (MDM) solutions that controlled the entire device. In the next wave, BYOD 2.0, control applies only to those apps necessary for business, enforcing corporate policy while maintaining personal privacy. A Mobile App Manager is a complete mobile application management platform built for BYOD 2.0.

BYOD Drivers
In 2013, the mobile workforce is expected to increase to 1.2 billion — a figure that will represent about 35 percent of the worldwide workforce—and many of those workers will be using their own devices.

by Bob Janacek

In an effort to safeguard sensitive information leaving an organization via email, many companies turn to content filtering of outbound mail. Unfortunately, technology in first-generation solutions uses a pattern-matching approach that often creates a large number of false positive alerts, flagging data that could otherwise be transmitted with no complications.

In some cases, an improperly flagged email might not reach its intended recipient. In other cases, the message might be encrypted, forcing the recipient to take additional steps to read its content. With either situation, a large number of content filtering false positives interrupts business and upsets employees, customers and clients. This compels some IT departments to turn off the filtering to appease their business managers.

This is no way to operate. Similar to the approach taken with other security efforts (such as when new products were first used for intrusion detection and prevention), companies need a content filtering solution that reduces false positives by using next-generation screening technology, such as exact matching. And they need to apply best practices when using these new screening technologies.