Mobile Active Defense

SC Magazine Interview with MAD and “What Scares The Living IT Out Of You?”

MAD Blogger — Thu, 10 May 2012 19:51:36 +0000

Winn Schwartau, Chairman of Mobile Active Defense (MAD) delivered an “eye opening” Key Note talk at the 2012 SC Congress Canada. Dan Kaplan, executive editor of SC Magazine sat down with Winn to discuss his key note, the successes and failures of information security, the threats, critical infrastructure protection, solar flares and the human factor.
To view the entire interview click here.

INFOSEC Europe – MDM is NOT Security – Interview

MAD Blogger — Mon, 07 May 2012 14:10:45 +0000

Rob Smith, CEO and Co-Founder of Mobile Active Defense (MAD) talks to 361 Degrees at INFOSEC Europe about what MDM really encompasses, why MDM is NOT security and what is truly needed to secure mobile devices in enterprises.
To listen to the interview and find out more about true security click here.

Palisade Systems & MAD Partnership with Full-Featured DLP

MAD Blogger — Tue, 01 May 2012 15:32:50 +0000

Corporate Data used in Mobile Enterprises just got a whole lot more secure. Mobile Active Defense and Palisade Systems officially announce their technology integration partnership, offering to protect sensitive data from being shared or leaked from mobile devices. To read the entire Press Release click Palisade & MAD Partnership

Winn Schwartau To Give A Key Note at SC Congress Canada 2012

MAD Blogger — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:45:11 +0000

Winn Schwartau, Chairman of Mobile Active Defense, will present one of the key notes titled: “What scares the living IT out of me – and keeps me awake at night (un-PC views on our future)” at the annual SC Congress Canada held in May 2012 at the Metro Toronto Convention Center. To learn more about the event and detailed agenda, click here.

NSA Mobile Security plan roadmap for all mobile device security?

MAD Blogger — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 19:05:01 +0000

Robert Westervelt in an IT Knowledge Exchange article outlined the NSA report unveiled at the recently held RSA2012. The NSA in it’s “Mobility Capability Package” report recommended Enterprise Mobility Architecture that could be a blue print needed for the private sector. Amongst the reports key recommendations are (surprise, surprise) items Mobile Active Defense has been strongly advocating since the beginning and available in its Mobile Enterprise Compliance Security (MECS) solution. Winn Schwartau, Chairman to MAD is also interviewed speaking about MAD’s full disk encryption.

NSA’s report key recommendations:

All mobile device traffic should travel through a VPN.
All devices should use AES 256 full disk encryption.
Tight controls on the use of Bluetooth, WiFi, voicemail and texting.
GPS disabled except for emergency 911 calls.
Ability to prevent users from tethering.
Ability to disable over-the-air software updates.

Read the entire article here.

EVP of MAD talks to EMC TV and RSA Secured about MDM

MAD Blogger — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 19:02:25 +0000

Eric Green, EVP of Mobile Active Defense talks to Maggie Burke in an interview on EMC TV and RSA Secured about Mobile Device Management – “Best of Breed” – the necessity for IP Sec, Stateful Inspection Firewalls, Certificate Authentication and other functionality solutions necessary to truly secure mobile devices. Mobile Active Defense showcased their holistic security focused solution recently at RSA 2012, differentiating themselves from other MDM vendors. To see the entire interview click here.

MDM is not enough – MDSM – Mobile Device Security Management – the only way to truly secure mobile devices.

MAD Blogger — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 19:22:23 +0000

Mobile Active Defense’s Winn Schwartau (Chairman of the Board) RSA 2012 is interviewed by NetHawk TV discussing the need and requirements of mobile devices in Enterprise and Government sectors to be truly secure and compliant.

http://www.nethawk.tv/rsa-2012-mobile-active-defenses-schwartau-on-need-for-good-technology-monitoring-user-training-to-fight-security-cold-war

Mocana and MAD Announce Strategic Partnership – BYOD Home Run

MAD Blogger — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:10:13 +0000

At RSA 2012 February 29th, industry leading and award winning Mobile Active Defense and Mocana announced today their strategic partnership to provide enhanced security for BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) enterprise mobile devices to their mutual customer bases. “Our partnership with Mocana offers our customers the best mobile security on the market today” commented Spencer Cobb (CEO and Co-Founder of MAD).

Kurt Stammberger (Mocana VP Market Development) said: “This exciting and timely partnership with Mobile Active Defense marks the beginning of a new era for Mocana. Mocana’s the defacto standard for device design teams looking to build-in security into their device designs, especially in critical contexts like military, smart grid, medical and mobile infrastructure.”

For more information and to read the entire Press Release click Mocana MAD Partnership

MAD and AirPatrol Team Up – Offering Granular Geo-Location Mobile Security

MAD Blogger — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:51:18 +0000

Mobile Active Defense and AirPatrol announce their partnership in a significant breakthrough to offer mobile device & security intelligence management for mobile devices in the enterprise. Both companies will showcase this highly granular geo-location-based mobile policy enforcement in San Francisco Feb. 27th – March 1st, 2012 in Booth 2247 at the RSA 2012 Conference.

To read about this new partnership of unique technologies, enabling and securing mobility click here.

Seccuris & M.A.D. Ink Deal for Mobile Security Hosting

MAD Blogger — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:48:44 +0000

Seccuris, Inc., leading Canadian provider of IA, ERM and MSS services for North American organizations and Mobile Active Defense have joined forces to provide secure mobile hosting, management and distribution to organizations in Canada.

“With the Mobile Enterprise Compliance Security (MECS) server solution and our manged threat monitoring services, we have a solution to help our customers not only monitor and protect their network from traditional external and internal threats, but also to more securely manage and eliminate breaches originating via smartphones and other mobile devices.” said Harold Hermann, Director of Sales and Marketing at Seccuris.

For more details and to read the complete PR Release, click MAD – Seccuris Press Release