Symantec released its Mobile Management 7.1 offering in September.  Mobile Management is at the baseline of any mobile initiative, aiming at securing and managing information on mobile devices, and offering a platform for leveraging new business models and a smarter workplace for the future.

Please note the Mobile resources Symantec has on offer:

• Mobile Solutions webpage
• Technical presentations (movies) on Symantec Connect
• Podcast: Mobile Security & Management: A Holistic Approach
• Follow Endpoint Management & Mobility...

The New York Times features Enrique Salem and his thoughts on leadership and culture.

Q. What were some important leadership lessons for you?

A. I played high school football — I was a linebacker — and then I played at Dartmouth. When you play football, you really understand it is a team effort. When you play organized sports, especially team sports, it’s not about individuals. I think organized sports are a way to learn a lot about things that will be helpful in business.

Q. Other lessons you learned playing sports?

A. I was captain of the varsity football team my senior year of high school. We called the plays the coach would signal in to us from the sideline. I used to be very much a student of the game. I would watch the game films myself and get ideas of what we should do, what we should think about.

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Last month saw our release of The Symantec Intelligence Report, combining the best of the Symantec.cloud Messagelabs Intelligence Report and the Symantec State of Spam and Phishing report. A bit of a mouthful we're sure you'd agree, which is why we've distilled everything down into a single place.

Included are the usual staples - Spam which is down from last year, Phishing which is up, and Virus attacks which have stayed roughly the same. Spyware is static, but the number of sites hosting web-borne viruses and trojans is on the increase.

So far, business as usual. But behind the broad trends lies a more interesting phenomenon, in the Chinese proverbial sense of, "May you live in interesting times." A number of new styles of attack are becoming more prevalent, which don't attempt to fit industry categories such as phishing or spyware, but which like to use elements of all of them.

Take Shady Rat, for example. We've written about...

"Put on the glasses, Joe!" V-Ray may sound like something out of a Gerry Anderson TV special. In Joe 90's case, he was just an ordinary boy until he put on his knowledge-enhancing glasses and became a global super-spy.

While the V-Ray technology update we reported at VMworld last month might not be quite so far-fetched, it performs a remarkably similar purpose - providing the knowledge systems administrators need about their VMware virtual machines, so they can better control both backup and restoration at a much more detailed level of granularity. It doesn't turn admins into super-spies, but it does enable a far better balance to be struck between the agility virtualisation can bring, and the continued need for data protection and system resilience.

We've all heard about the challenges of VM sprawl, the problems of knowing what VMs contain what data, and the...