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Mobile Active Defense Adds Mobile Network Level Security Compatible to Any MDM in Support of Apple Decision to Fight Patent Trolling Court Decision
In a recent PR Release, Mobile Active Defense (M@D), The Smartphone Security Company, announced its full support of Apple’s action to reconsider a decision it made to change how iPhones and iPads handle virtual private networking (VPN) access, following the … Continue reading
Apple Backtracks on Planned VPN On Demand Changes
Previously this month MAD released a white paper highlighting numerous issues with the changes Apple proposed due to loosing their patent lawsuit dispute with VirnetX. MacRumors amongst others (Network World, Securityweek) have given great shout-outs to this white paper, available … Continue reading
Gearhead-Network World Recommends Reading MAD’s White Paper
Mark Gibbs, addresses some serious networking issues concerning Apple and it’s recent patent dispute loss to VirnetX. “Apple’s solution to this loss is that future versions of iOS (6.1 and later) will only establish a VPN if needed rather than … Continue reading
Apple iOS VPN On Demand Feature Loss – To Affect Enterprises Worldwide
If you are not aware, Apple announced last Thursday that it lost a patent dispute with VirnetX and will be changing the behavior of the VPN On Demand feature on iOS devices running iOS 6.1 or later through a software … Continue reading
SC Magazine annouces its Industry Innovators Hall of Fame 2012
SC explains, that their Hall of Fame is reserved for the “best of the best”. And though there are lots of organizations that have cool products, the concern is also that no matter how “cool” the product is, the company … Continue reading
BYOD Programs Pose Security Risk for Businesses: Ovum
M.A.D. has always said it’s not a matter of “if” but “when”. The stats reported in this article by eWEEK of a study performed by Ovum are quite scary. “A survey of 4,000 full-time employees by technology consulting firm Ovum … Continue reading
SMBs Be Warned: MDM Is Not Security – Article
“There is no security in MDM; its ability to secure a device is nowhere near what it needs to be.” said Eric Green, SVP of Mobile Active Defense in his talk at the recent ISC2 Security Congress in Philadelphia. The … Continue reading
Analysis: MDM is NOT Security published in TabTimes
Winn Schwartau, Chairman of Mobile Active Defense, offers his analysis in TabTimes to clarify that MDM only offers a compact set of tools for a fairly basic level of device management along with false promises of security and introduces a … Continue reading
“There is no security in MDM” ComputerWeekly Interview Article
Eric Green, was recently interviewed by ComputerWeekly at the ASIS/ISC2 Security Conference in Philadelphia, based on a talk he presented at the conference to a large audience. MAD’s SVP, Eric goes on to say in the article “There is no … Continue reading
BYOD – Recipe for Disaster?
For most people, a mobile device is as essential as clothing. From 80 to 8 years old, it seems everyone is connected via their phone or tablet. The issue for most organizations is that your employees want their device to … Continue reading