My Google filters sometimes snags on the strangest stuff. An interview given by Mobile Iron’s Bob Tinker can be found here. We compete with a variety of non-MDM enterprise app store vendors. As the one enterprise app store vendor who’s actually implemented MDM as well, here’s me sticking up for the little guys.

Let’s have a look at Bob’s threat models one-by-one:

1. “Imagine a scenario where an employee wants to maliciously distribute corporate apps outside the company.” I wouldn’t put that at the top of the list, but hey, it’s his interview. The bad employee can just as easily get the app off the device whether or not the device has MDM. Next.
2. “An enterprise app storefront integrated with management and security can identify...

"iPads, iPhones, Android, oh my! More employees are bringing their own devices to the office and connecting them to the corporate network. The practice poses a security risk to the network as well as a data loss risk if devices get lost. Imagine if your banker carried your social security number, account number and PINs on his iPad that he carted around everywhere with him." Quotes the channelinsider.com website.

Read more and see the slide show of their solutions round up - especially #9 Symantec Mobile Management and Security Suite "Bringing together all of Symantec's strong suits for the mobile environment..."

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A few weeks back, Microsoft provided a glimpse at their new Windows 8 operating system. One of the most notable features was the new user interface.

Windows 8 will feature Microsoft’s Metro user interface. Users of the company’s Zune and Windows Phone 7 products should feel right at home since this is the user interface they have grown accustomed to. On the surface, this demonstrates how Microsoft is attempting to make their flagship operating system touch and gesture friendly for tablets.

Beneath the surface, however, this highlights a much bigger developing trend: the blurring of lines between endpoints. This is of paramount significance to enterprise IT departments.

Why? Because enterprise IT is wired to look at the devices based on the form factor. By default, they tend to put desktops and laptops, and their associated applications and data in one bucket, and mobile devices, mobile apps and mobile data in another bucket. Recent changes in...