Prevent BYOD from becoming Bring Your Own Disease

From Tech Republic

“With BYOD initiatives seeing exponential growth, security has become an utmost concern for network managers dealing with mobile users.

Everybody likes "free." But that likeability takes a hard hit when "free" is combined with "network security", particularly when BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) issues are involved.

In the past, network managers had the luxury of dictating what security software was used across the enterprise, with expansive management suites enforcing the use of anti-malware technologies across both servers and workstations. Fast forward to the present day and network administrators have usurped most of their control over endpoints, simply because enterprises own fewer endpoints and are embracing BYOD ideologies to lower costs.”

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BYOD: Bring Your Own Device to the Boardroom

From BankDirectorMagazine

Many banks are adopting the concept of bring your own device or BYOD. In this video, John Boehm of BoardVantage shares questions directors should ask before embracing this new policy.

Forget Standardization - Embrace BYOD

From Dark Reading

"The platform standardization ship has sailed, but mobile device management is your ticket to securing all of those handhelds

Despite its rocky start, Windows 8 has IT departments salivating over the idea of standardizing on a single platform. It's a compelling vision: phones, tablets, and workstations all running a single OS and managed through a shared set of native Microsoft tools. Compelling, perhaps, but for most organizations, it ain't gonna happen."

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Top 4 Global Intelligence Threats

“Solutionary is out with its 2013 Global Threat Intelligence Report. What are the top four threats to organizations, and how can they be mitigated? Security strategist Don Gray offers insights and tips.

Sophisticated malware, continued DDoS attacks across industries, the BYOD trend, and web application security. These are the top four threats identified in Solutionary's new 2013 Global Threat”

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What we are reading … 5th March 2013

Is Apple Killing Off This Key Technology? http://wallstcheatsheet.com/stocks/is-apple-killing-off-this-key-technology.html/

When Your Broker 'Outs' You http://on.wsj.com/YQj1ob

Over 30 Million Sign Up for Mobile Banking http://dld.bz/cm5SN

10 considerations for BYOD cost/benefit analysis http://dld.bz/cm5SM

Is now the time for major regulatory change? http://www.finextra.com/Community/FullBlog.aspx?blogid=7419

US judge orders cut in Samsung payout to Apple http://bbc.in/YHLF97

Benefits of bringing mobile banking to the unbanked http://gu.com/p/3evp7/tw

Mobile work: Two challenges we need to overcome http://dld.bz/cm5SE

Google, Digital Mailboxes and the long tail of eBilling http://www.finextra.com/Community/FullBlog.aspx?blogid=7420

Anytime, Anyplace: Security and Strategy for a BYOD Workforce

“When the iPhone was released in June 2007, there was no doubt that it would be popular. Well, “popular” turned out to be an understatement. According to the research giant Gartner, within half a year of release the original iPhone captured 20 percent of the smartphone market. Fast forward to today and smartphones along with tablets continue to mesmerize users with ever increasing functionality and seemingly limitless possibilities. According to one of the most recent and comprehensive mobile device reports in existence, the Cisco “Visual Networking Index (VNI) Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update”, the number of mobile devices will exceed the world’s population sometime in 2013. That’s right. We’ll soon have more mobile devices than people on the planet.” 

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What we are reading … 26th February 2013

Madoff to FBN: Maintain Scrutiny on Banks and Feeder Funds http://shar.es/jgL9a

Bernie Madoff: 'The Banks Had To Know What I Was Doing' http://huff.to/Xz18a0

Google Developing Touchscreen Devices http://on.wsj.com/Ya3WxB

Kenya Approves Fee For Mobile Money Transfers http://shar.es/YNA4Z

Consumerization, BYOD and MDM: What you need to know http://dld.bz/cjPC8

Carrier Billing Beats NFC For Short-Term Monetization of Mobile Payments http://dld.bz/cjPC7

Study: 37% of Britons would consider leaving 'big five' banks http://dld.bz/cjPC6

Tanzania: New Regulations for mobilemoney services due in June http://shar.es/YNAtU

Staying in touch with the home front: BYOD in the US military http://dld.bz/cjPC2

What we are reading … 25th February 2013

Retailer Credit Card - possible engine of growth for banks http://dld.bz/cjP5p

The One Thing Banks Should Never Do on Facebook and Twitter http://dld.bz/cjP26

BYOD and the Consumerization of IT http://shar.es/YPada

10 Mobile Payment Systems from the Cell Phone Stone Age http://dld.bz/cjDnk

Operational Risk Management...: IO Convergence: Cyber Warfare Unified Taxonomy... http://shar.es/YFjQ0

New Wells Fargo ATMs Can Predict What People Want http://bit.ly/YAZGVU

Unavoidable: 62 percent of companies to allow BYOD by year's end http://dld.bz/cjDe3

What we are reading … 22nd February 2013

Basel Committee 'considering capital requirement reforms' and issues FX guidance http://dld.bz/cjkYy

Safaricom gets vendor to run higher capacity M-Pesa platform in Kenya http://shar.es/YFhg0

Wells Fargo overhauls ATMs for personalised service http://www.finextra.com/News/FullStory.aspx?newsitemid=24558

Mobile payments at 'the world's best bar' http://dld.bz/cjkPg

New PCI Guidance for Mobile Payments http://dld.bz/cjkKV

UK needs to take action to prepare for extreme solar weather events http://www.continuitycentral.com/news06643.html

Mobile Banking by Voice Next Up? http://dld.bz/cjkDp

A tiered approach to BYOD control http://www.continuitycentral.com/feature1049.html