With the end of 2011 upon us, one thing is sure: the mobile revolution is in full swing. Smartphones and tablets are everywhere.

In fact, according to the analyst firm Gartner, sales of smartphones will exceed 461 million this year – surpassing PC shipments in the process – and rise to 645 million in 2012. Combined sales of smartphones and tablets will be 44 percent greater than the PC market by the end of the year. Beyond 2011, Gartner says the rise in tablet use will jump to 900 million by 2016.

These devices are not just becoming mainstream, they are penetrating nearly every aspect of our lives. More importantly, for many the line between personal and business devices has been blurred, or erased altogether. More often than not, a single device is used for both personal and business activities, with Gartner also predicting that 80 percent of professionals will use at least two personal devices to access corporate systems and data by 2014....

Apple released a new generation of MacBook Air notebooks and Mac mini desktops in mid-2011.  These latest releases of MacBook Air notebooks and Mac mini desktops have a known issue with Symantec PGP Whole Disk Encryption. Symantec Engineering has isolated this issue down to specifically the latest version of Mac Book Air notebooks 4.2 with the Intel Core i5 and i7 processors and the mid 2011 versions of the Mac mini desktops 5.1, 5.2, and 5.3 with the Intel Core i5 and i7 processors.

We have successfully tested and verified that PGP Whole Disk Encryption 10.2MP1 works with all MacBook Air notebooks and Mac mini desktops and the Lion OS X operating system prior to the latest releases of these MacBook Air notebooks and Mac mini desktops.

An easy way to distinguish the latest generation of Mac Book Air notebooks and Mac mini desktops are to look for the presence of a Thunderbolt...

One of the most unusual aspects of the Apple iOS devices is the aspect of how user demand is driving enterprise adoption. Even in corporations where the iPad or the iPhone are not a part of the enterprise standard, it’s not unusual to see employees bringing their own devices to work and making it a part of their business life. For example, a sales manager that has an iPad typically wants to take it on a business trip and read their email. This may include weekly sales forecasts, contracts, and customer data. While having this type of information on the go may be convenient, it poses a security concern for the IT organization that now needs to make sure that sensitive corporate data stays protected on an employee’s personal device.

In order to protect the corporate data, it makes sense to use email encryption to protect data en route and resident on a portable device. Encryption protects the privacy of the information by making use of cryptography to ensure that...

As you might have seen or heard, Symantec recently announced new features to our encryption products.   I’ll give you a quick run down of some of the highlights of this latest release.

One of the most exciting features is the introduction of Symantec PGP Viewer for iOS.  This has been one of the most asked for feature by customers who need a solution to  “My CxO wants to be able to read encrypted emails on their iPad or iPhone.”  Well, it can now be done with the PGP Viewer for iOS.  You can decrypt your emails locally on your iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch devices now.  Best of all, the PGP Viewer is free from the Apple App Store (expected to be in the App Store by late summer.) It does require PGP Universal Server for key management, so wait until you get information from your mail administrator before you install it.

Another really cool feature is the ability of Symantec Endpoint Encryption Full Disk Edition (SEE FDE)...