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The Current State of Mobile Malware
bduckering | 11 Dec 2012 | 0 comments

This post first appeared on the website of Mobile Enterprise Magazine.

While it is true that the design of some aspects of mobile device operating systems afford better in-built security against certain types of malware, it is a mistake to assume mobile devices are impenetrable. Believing they are lacks foresight.

In fact, the current state of mobile malware is reminiscent of the early days of computer security as whole. In those early days, many believed that simply practicing “safe surfing” would be a sufficient countermeasure.

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Solving The Toughest Information Protection Issues In A Social, Mobile And Cloud World
Symantec Corp. | 20 Nov 2012 | 0 comments

By Sanjay Sawhney, Senior Director of Research at Symantec Research Labs

The technology landscape is rapidly changing into a more mobile and cloud-based world.  And in this world, the end user and servers (services provided to the end user) are ‘virtual’ or decoupled from devices, physical machines and networks.

However, there are a few constants:

  • The user and server have to share a single root of trust with one another (mutual authentication)
  • The data and sharing of the data drives a lot of the end user experience; not the device or the application
  • In this evolving technology landscape, who does what  with any piece of data is the most important aspect of providing security
  • Harnessing the humongous data...
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Symantec App Center Ready Program Helps Create Trusted Mobile Apps
bduckering | 17 Oct 2012 | 0 comments

 

 

Businesses today are relying more on mobility than ever before. With more people working in multiple locations, at various times, and on a number of different devices, companies are trying to determine the best way to enable mobile productivity without sacrificing protection. These businesses are finding that to fully leverage mobility, they must make mobile applications available to users. However, deploying new applications requires significant resources to ensure proper integration, management and security.

 

To help enterprises overcome this challenge, Symantec today announced the Symantec App Center Ready Program. The program allows mobile application developers to embed Symantec’s security and management features, such as encryption, authentication, data loss prevention policies, app distribution and revocation, into their apps without...

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It's Time to Revise Your Mobile Policy
Guido Sanchidrian | 24 May 2012 | 2 comments

The last few days I spent some time to digest the latest Symantec Internet Security Threat Report Volume 17. This comprehensive report provides an overview and analysis of the year 2011 in global threat activity. The report is based on data from the Global Intelligence Network, which Symantec's analysts use to identify, analyze, and provide commentary on emerging trends in attacks, malicious code activity, phishing, and spam.

I am an active member of the Cloud Security Alliance Mobile Working Group, where we actually do research on secure mobile endpoint computing, which will result into valuable guidelines to be published this year. Therefore my Threat Report reading was likely shorten through the lens of...

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What Recent Acquisitions Mean for Symantec’s Enterprise Mobility Strategy
bduckering | 17 May 2012 | 0 comments

In October of 2010, Symantec publicly announced its mobile protection strategy, defining a new era in how Symantec secures and manages the information and identities of consumers, businesses and governments in an increasingly mobile world. At its core, the announcement laid out our protection strategy and approach for enterprises, consumers and communication service providers.

That approach is still at the core of how Symantec is addressing the larger mobility trend. However, we continue to strengthen and refine our approach as advancements in mobility develop and changes to the mobile threat landscape evolve. In that regard, Symantec announced some significant advancements to its overall mobile strategy in February of this year and demonstrated that we have delivered on our mobile strategy. Some of those advancements hinged on the acquisition of Odyssey Software.

Odyssey...

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Driving Growth with a Relentless Focus on Information Protection
fdesouza | 21 Feb 2012 | 0 comments

 

One of about the things I enjoy most in my role is the opportunity to engage with our customers about the challenges they're facing on a daily basis.  Over the past few months they have raised a number of issues that mirror what we are seeing on a macro level.  While trends like cloud, virtualization and mobility offer great promise, companies around the world are struggling with the new challenges they present. 

And all too often, companies are afraid to take advantage of opportunities in front of them.  The same innovations that offer such promise also create risk and complexity.  

That's why protection is such a powerful thing.  It gives you the confidence to be bold and take calculated risks.  And that confidence is important in a world that is radically changing for companies today.  

To enable our customers to take advantages of the opportunities brought on by things like big data and...

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