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Road to Synergy: Securing Android, iOS and Windows Phone devices in the enterprise
The choice of mobile OS determines everything from hardware, apps, support, jailbreak capability, expandabilty and accessories - while discretely impacting enterprise management, support, privacy and security. Security features are either inherent in the mobile OS or enforced through measures and policy controlled by the mobile OS. This means that the proper configuration and maintainence of mobile OS security features is imperitive to protecting both the ...
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Mobile Security starts with Citrix Receiver, CloudGateway and ShareFile
It’s time to take action to advance enterprise mobility management and security. Enterprises must allow workers to bring the latest devices into the workplace to remain competitive. Compliance and the protection of sensitive enterprise data must be assured. These two missions are seemingly at odds with each other, but must be brought into balance for workplace harmony. Where to start? The need to support BYO users ...
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Citrix Joins Forces With the Cloud Security Alliance to Help Promote Cloud Best Practices
It seems like everywhere you go, people are talking about the cloud and rightly so. Cloud is changing how IT manages and delivers IT services as well as how people consume information in their business and personal lives. But despite all the interest and momentum, many people still have concerns about the cloud. In fact, in a new national survey by Wakefield Research, commissioned by ...
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Design for your fears!
Nothing strikes fear into the heart of an IT professional like losing control over security. Yet, two of the most popular trends in IT – Bring Your Own (BYO) and Cloud computing – threaten to obliterate security as we know it. BYO computing allows workers to use their own devices, networks and applications in the enterprise. After spending decades trying to prevent any “non-standard”, personally-owned and ...
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The End of One-Size-Fits-All Computing
One-size-fits-all. It might work for Snuggies, but it doesn't work for enterprise computing. For years, IT departments have carefully controlled the use of all technology from applications to devices. "Users" (notice that it doesn't matter who they are or what work they do) were given what IT decided on. And that decision process was a long and painful one, carefully standardizing on a generic set of ...
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Change brings Security?
The workplace of today is changing. Against the background of unpredictability in the current economic climate, organizations are striving to be both agile and flexible - while adhering to increasingly strict governance demands. Unsurprisingly, many organizations are struggling to adjust. Yet realize that being able to grow, change direction, manage risk and rapidly adapt to market trends has never been more important. Many are creating more ...
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Secure by Design: new research supports a modern security strategy
The impact of trends such as workshifting, consumerization of IT and cloud computing are having a similarly big impact on security practices. A traditional approach to information security no longer meets the needs of a modern enterprise. From all our discussions with customers and at industry forums, we believe that there is a real opportunity to help organizations rethink their security approach and architect around ...
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Congratulations, Citrix – Security Organization of the Year!
Please join me in congratulating Citrix on being awarded with the Information Systems Security Association Organization of the Year 2011. The award was presented October 20th at the ISSA International Conference in Baltimore, MD. The ISSA is the world's leading association of information security professionals and practitioners. Citrix was honored for outstanding contributions to, and advancement of, the information security profession and the ISSA, along with ...
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CLOUD2 Delivers Cloud Computing Recommendations to Obama Administration
Tech Industry Recommendations for Gov’t Adoption of Cloud Computing Released Today! As a Commissioner with theTechAmerica Foundation’s Commission on the Leadership Opportunity in U.S. Deployment of the Cloud (CLOUD2), I'm pleased to announce that the CLOUD2 report outlining our recommendations to the Obama administration was finally released today! For the last three months, the Commission has been working to produce guidance for both public and private-sector use ...
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Citrix Ready Security Challenge – Announcing the Winners!
The Citrix Ready Security Challenge kicked off on April 1, 2011 with videos featuring Citrix Ready security solution partners- AuthenWare, CoreTrace, Delfigo Security, PhoneFactor, Quaresso, SafeCentral, SafenSoft, SMS Passcode, and Trend Micro. The voting closed on April 29, with an impressive 5800+ views of the contest page and over 1400 votes on all the videos! Citrix Ready partners captured the community with their ability to demonstrate ...