Category Archives: Security

BYOD, cloud, security top of mind at 2013 ICT Conference

Posted on 21/03/2013 by

BYOD, cloud computing, security, virtualisation and video conferencing are among the issues that are on top of the minds of attendees at this year’s Gen-i ICT Conference. In feedback surveys, as well as in the video below, attendees listed technologies … Continue reading →

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Everything? There’s an app for that…

Posted on 02/10/2012 by

Talking to fellow Gen-i blogger, strategy manager Neil Osmond (who really is a clever bugger) recently, he brought up an interesting point about an offshoot of the Bring Your Own Device trend – Bring Your Own Application. The theory is … Continue reading →

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Are you losing data in consumer clouds?

Posted on 18/09/2012 by

Traditionally, businesses could create a secure perimeter around their technical environment and protect it from attack from a few different angles.  If you had a firewall, locked down operating systems with anti-virus installed and some physical security – you were … Continue reading →

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Protect the network for secure BYOD

Posted on 07/09/2012 by

My recent posts about bring-your-own-device security covered protecting devices and data. There’s a third step you need to consider: protecting the network. The ideas come from the recent Gartner 2012 Security and Risk Management Summit in Sydney where Gartner experts … Continue reading →

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Government “cloud first” approach welcomed

Posted on 04/09/2012 by

It’s good to see Internal Affairs Minister Chris Tremain leading from the front on the Government’s adoption of cloud computing. Last week the minister issued a statement where he described cloud computing as “an exciting, emerging technology”. He says it … Continue reading →

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