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Consumerisation of Enterprise IT
Gartner & SafeNet
In Gartner’s recent Magic Quadrant report for User Authentication (ID:G00227026) places SafeNet Inc in the leading position overall.
Optical Signing Device Aids Fight Against eBanking Fraud
SafeNet launches new authentication token for retail banking transactions.
SafeNet have introduced a new low cost, easy to use yet extremely sophisticated authentication token, the eToken 3500, aimed at protecting everyday on-line banking transactions. The token uses optical signing to eliminate the majority of typing of passwords and keycodes by the user and thus reduces the possibility of user errors. The end result is a simple to use yet highly effective system for user authentication and digital signing of on-line banking transactions.
For more information on this any many other authentication solutions please call us on 01661 854 492.
RIM to manage Apple Devices?
RIM Announce MDM Product
RIM the Canadian mobile company and makers of the BlackBerry™ range of devices announced last week its intention to introduce a new mobile device management product, BlackBerry Mobile Fusion. The new product is targeted at BlackBerry users that also want to manage smartphones or tablets running Apple’s iOS or Android.
RIM will have its work cut out trying to enter an increasingly crowded market and it may not be as appealing, even to BlackBerry users as one might think. The key issue here is that the new system will not actually do anything to integrate the user’s backend email and collaboration system for other mobile devices. Users will not be able to access their BlackBerry encrypted mail using any of these other devices. Corporate users will need to use Microsoft’s ActiveSync to connect to Exchange and rely on the native device operating systems for any security and encryption.
RIM’s Market Position
Will this help RIM’s standings in the market? I think not and with losses mounting over the company’s PlayBook fiasco it’s hard to see anything but further decline in RIM’s fortunes. As the Guardian’s columnist Charles Arthur said today “Either way, the numbers say RIM isn’t long for this world if it doesn’t shape up.“.
Excitor’s DME offers the following Enterprise Security features for iOS, Android, Windows Mobile and Symbian Smartphones and Tablets:
- A secure partition for corporate data, allowing the remote wiping of corporate data only from a user’s personal device.
- Proprietary on device encryption & password management system not susceptible to vulnerabilities in Mobile Operating Systems.
- Proprietary push email & over the air encryption system with no reliance on Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync push email.
- UK CESG Security Accredited, suitable for UK Government use.
DME Mobile Email & PIM is a multiplatform secure application that gives any employee access to corporate email, calendar, contacts and documents in a separate corporate partition. The perfect solution to deploy a “Bring Your Own Device” policy.
DME Mobile Cost Control & Alerts is able to track mobile usage and display alerts to users to warn them about their consumption, hence changing user behaviour before bills can escalate.
DME Mobile Device Manager is able to service each employee’s device and manage it centrally. It can be used to provision applications to devices, remotely configure e.g. wireless settings, authorise or block applications, secure data, and lock and wipe devices.
DME AppBox mobilises all of your enterprise applications into the DME secure container. It enables a wide range of business processes to be built in and deployed quickly and easily by re-using the existing security and mobilisation infrastructure inherent in DME.Digital Certificates
Digital Certificates
In the past the popular notion of digital certificates was one of difficulty and complexity and best suited to very high end security systems such as military or security forces. It wasn’t the first option by any means for the average IT department. However, in today’s enterprise networks the importance of mutual authentication and the increasing demand for simple point to point encryption using SSL/TLS between servers, as well as client to server, the use of digital certificates has become critical.
There is a need, therefore, to be able to implement and maintain a certificate infrastructure easily and cost-effectively. For them to be easy to manage, without the need for administrators to become highly expert in PKI, this means they must integrate tightly with existing management systems that administrators are familiar with.
Focus on HSMs
The safe storage and protection of encryption keys and certificates is paramount to the maintenance of any encryption and authentication system. With the increasing reliance on encryption and digital certificates within many enterprises for security, the use of an HSM to store private key material is highly recommended.
