Google Vault Makes Play for Mobile Security Hardware Space

June 2, 2015 Leave a comment

Google Project VaultLast week Google made a splash with its latest futuristic tech offering: Project Vault. In essence, this mini-computer on an SD card is designed to enable secure authentication, communications and data storage on your smartphone or laptop. So what exactly is going on here? After years experimenting with Android, has one of the world’s biggest software companies finally admitted hardware level security is the way forward? And if so, what are the implications for enterprise and consumers? Read more of this post

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Cesare Garlati Joins prpl Foundation as Chief Security Strategist

April 7, 2015 Leave a comment

prpl FoundationSANTA CLARA, CA–(Marketwired – April 07, 2015) – Well-known information security expert Cesare Garlati today joins the prpl Foundation as Chief Security Strategist. Garlati will assist the Foundation with security strategy in the newly formed Security PEG (prpl Engineering Group), a working group dedicated to creating an open standard framework that addresses next-generation security requirements for connected devices.

“Cesare Garlati is an internationally renowned leader in the mobile security space,” said prpl Foundation president Art Swift. “We all look forward to his contributions in security strategy and his participation in the ground-breaking Security PEG.”

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How secure is Mobile Device Management anyway?

January 8, 2014 7 Comments

Objective-C HookingResearchers have successfully breached the Good Technology container. MDM software can only be as secure as the underlying operating system.


As the adoption of smartphones and tablets grows exponentially, one of the biggest challenges facing corporate IT organizations is not the threat of losing the device – likely owned by the employee – but the threat of a targeted attack stealing sensitive corporate data stored on these mobile devices. As a first line of defense, an increasing number of companies rely on Mobile Device Management software and Secure Container solutions to secure and manage corporate data accessed from these mobile devices. However, a recent analysis conducted by Lacoon Mobile Security – presented a few weeks ago at the BlackHat conference in Amsterdam – shows that the leading secure container solution Good Technology can be breached and corporate email stolen from Apple iOS and Android devices.

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BYOD – The Benefits [VIDEO]

September 16, 2013 1 Comment

cesare-garlati-financial-impact-of-byod.3IT strategists and commentators alike have been talking about the cost impacts and benefits of the Consumerization of IT for years. However, no-one seems to agree on what’s actually going on out there from a financial perspective. Why? Because no one has managed to formulate an effective framework for measuring the financial impact of consumer-grade technology on the enterprise. IT managers are effectively flying blind with only a vague notion of what to measure and how to measure it.

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BYOD – The Hidden Costs [VIDEO]

August 7, 2013 1 Comment

cesare-garlati-financial-impact-of-byod.2Executives and IT leaders are struggling to understand the true costs and benefits of IT consumerization and it’s not difficult to see why. Even a cursory Google search on the subject throws up as many questions as it does conflicting answers. The reason is that no comprehensive research has been conducted into the financial impact of such programs before.

That’s why Trend Micro recently decided to take the bull by the horns and commission Forrester Consulting to conduct a rigorous, scientific study – interviewing over 200 IT leaders in the US, UK, France, and Germany. With the results we have begun to build an accurate picture for the first time of what organizations are measuring in their BYOD programs and the cost impacts, in order that IT leaders can go away and begin to formulate for themselves an effective cost benefit analysis.

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BYOD: You can’t manage what you don’t measure [VIDEO]

July 22, 2013 Leave a comment

cesare-garlati-financial-impact-of-byod.1The Consumerization of IT is a trend even the most parochial IT manager has surely heard of by now. It’s sweeping through enterprises across the planet with no regard for legacy, tradition or order and can be seen as either the most exciting or terrifying thing to happen to IT in the past decade, depending on where you stand.

For many IT managers, unfortunately, the prevailing attitude is still “why should I allow it?”. They are clinging on to the old paradigm whereby IT controlled and dictated the purchasing and ongoing management of technology used by employees. This attitude just will not stand any longer – consumerization is happening, and it needs to be managed in as financially efficient a manner as possible.

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Icebergs, The Nordics, and Other BYOD Considerations

February 13, 2013 1 Comment

The BYOD iceberg headed towards your businessNew data shows that companies are increasingly exposed to security risks due to a variety of consumer-grade technology brought in by the employees.


I just returned from a tour in the Nordic countries where I presented to the local press the results of the latest BYOD survey* conducted by YouGov on behalf of Trend Micro. The data collected from 3,012 interviews across Norway, Sweden, and Denmark highlights many details of this controversial IT Trend. Most importantly, the research confirms an undeniable truth: Companies around the world are exposed to increasing security risks due to a variety of consumer-grade technology brought into the enterprise by the employees and inevitably used for work-related activities.

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The Financial Impact of Consumerization – The Hidden Costs

February 4, 2013 Leave a comment

BYOD Financial CostsExecutives and IT leaders are struggling to understand the true costs and benefits of IT consumerization and it’s not difficult to see why. Even a cursory Google search on the subject throws up as many questions as it does conflicting answers. The reason is that no comprehensive research has been conducted into the financial impact of such programs before.

That’s why Trend Micro recently decided to take the bull by the horns and commission Forrester Consulting to conduct a rigorous, scientific study – interviewing over 200 IT leaders in the US, UK, France, and Germany. With the results we have begun to build an accurate picture for the first time of what organizations are measuring in their BYOD programs and the cost impacts, in order that IT leaders can go away and begin to formulate for themselves an effective cost benefit analysis.

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The Financial Impact of Consumerization – BYOD boosts productivity.

January 16, 2013 3 Comments

BYOD Financial BenefitsIT strategists and commentators alike have been talking about the cost impacts and benefits of the Consumerization of IT for years. However, no-one seems to agree on what’s actually going on out there from a financial perspective. Why? Because no one has managed to formulate an effective framework for measuring the financial impact of consumer-grade technology on the enterprise. IT managers are effectively flying blind with only a vague notion of what to measure and how to measure it.

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BYOD, Enterprise Mobility and Beyond – What to expect in 2013

January 8, 2013 1 Comment

BYOD, Enterprise Mobility and Beyond – What to expect in 2013Trend Micro’s CTO Raimund Genes recently published his traditional new year predictions for 2013. Quite insightful and mind opening paper, which I invite you to download and add to your reading list for the Holidays.

Interestingly enough for Trend Micro – the company that has made the “Journey to the Cloud” its corporate mantra – Raimund’s top two predictions are not related to the cloud but rather to the inevitable impact of consumer mobile platforms on corporate IT – a topic particularly relevant to the Consumerization blog and to the Enterprise Mobility professionals among us:

#1 The volume of malicious and high-risk Android apps will hit 1 million in 2013.

#2 Windows 8 offers improved security—but only to consumers.

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