Mobile app management is being driven by unmanaged devices

Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 03:08:00 -0800

The need to manage applications on unmanaged devices owned by employees or contractors is driving adoption of stand-alone mobile app management (MAM) software and services, according to a new Gartner report.

By 2021, 60% of mobile apps being used in the enterprise will rely on at least one app-level management control, whether on managed or unmanaged devices, Gartner’s Market Guide for Mobile Application Management said.

Unlike MAM tools that are part of a larger enterprise mobility management (EMM) suite, the use of stand-alone MAM licensing offers lower per-user cost and can be attractive for companies only requiring app management, Gartner said. For other firms, EMM provides the advantage of a single console and policy set.

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Windows Defender ATP machine learning and AMSI: Unearthing script-based attacks that ‘live off the land’

Credit to Author: Windows Defender ATP| Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2017 14:00:07 +0000

Scripts are becoming the weapon of choice of sophisticated activity groups responsible for targeted attacks as well as malware authors who indiscriminately deploy commodity threats. Scripting engines such as JavaScript, VBScript, and PowerShell offer tremendous benefits to attackers. They run through legitimate processes and are perfect tools for living off the landstaying away from the

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The top 10 stories of 2017: Security woes, autonomous machines – and a very cool phone

Credit to Author: Marc Ferranti| Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2017 04:45:00 -0800

Top 10 stories of 2017: Autonomous machines, fake news and a very cool phone
2017

Image by Google; bitcoin.org; Jette Carr/U.S. Department of Defense; Apple

Events in the tech industry this year played out against a backdrop of security concerns as home users and corporations alike scrambled to protect themselves against malware. Meanwhile, machine learning was behind some of the biggest tech stories and trends of the year. Here in no particular order are the IDG News Service’s picks for top stories of the year.

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How To Rock Each Day At AWS re:Invent

Credit to Author: Mark Nunnikhoven (Vice President, Cloud Research)| Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 13:00:15 +0000

This week 40,000 people are going to gather in Las Vegas for the biggest event in cloud, AWS re:Invent 2017. This is a fantastic event jam packed with opportunities to meet members of the community, learn about great new services from AWS, and have a blast. I’ve already written about how to get the most…

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Don’t be the fool in the cloud

Credit to Author: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols| Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 07:23:00 -0700

When I hear people worrying about cloud security, they’re usually shaking in their boots about some obscure bug beyond their control. Ha! Ordinary, stupid human mistakes are more than bad enough.

For example, Accenture left hundreds of gigabytes of private user and corporate data on four unsecured Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 cloud servers. The data included passwords and decryption keys. What did you need to dig into this treasure trove? The servers’ web addresses.

That’s all. No user ID, no password, no nothing.

Adding insult to injury, according to Chris Vickery, director of cyber-risk research at security firm UpGuard, Accenture’s revealed data included its AWS Key Management System (KMS) master keys. With those, an attacker could have also taken control of all the company’s encrypted AWS data.

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Colocation Providers Are Front and Center in Customer Edge Computing Plans

Credit to Author: Mark Bidinger| Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 17:37:44 +0000

Pick an IT computing trend and there’s a good chance you’ll find edge computing plays into it in some way, shape or form. Internet of Things requires edge computing to… Read more »

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Why Prefabricated, Modular Solutions Are a Perfect Fit for Edge Data Centers

Credit to Author: Mike Sanders| Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 12:30:11 +0000

As companies continue to put more and more IT resources into the cloud, it’s putting greater emphasis on the need for edge data centers, which serve at least two main… Read more »

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