Thin client computing has been around for many years - predating the PC, if you include standard green screen terminals. However, the real push with thin client devices was during the late 1990s, when the likes of NCD, Wyse and IGEL pushed their devices as being the antidote to the high price, low stability and variable management costs of the standard PC. ...
02/09/2008 | Thin client computing smartens up.pdf | VIEW
Virtual private networks (VPNs) are the technologies most widely used by organisations today in the provision of remote access to their networks for employees, business partners and suppliers. Of the VPNs available, IPSec (Internet Protocol Security) VPNs provide the most complete remote access solution, although they have traditionally been seen as costly and difficult to deploy. A new generation of IPSec VPNs, which can enable organisations to gain a centrally managed and high security remote access solution without the administrative burdens and overheads generally associated with IPSec VPN deployments, is now emerging. ...
28/04/2008 | The essential elements of secure remote access.pdf | VIEW
The financial services industry deals with a commodity that is primarily electronic-money. Consequently it spends more per employee on IT than any other industry. Despite this, there is a worrying tendency for information that should be confidential to end up in the public domain. Why is this and what can be done? ...
30/01/2008 | Quocirca_-_Banks_and_DLP_-_Jan_2008.pdf | VIEW
Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) can benefit from the expansive use of information technology (IT) just as much as their larger counterparts. Indeed, in many cases they have to, because to trade they need to interact with business partners of all sizes and IT failure affects not just internal users but those of third parties. To this end any SMB's IT infrastructure needs to be resilient and secure. All too often it is not and when this is the case the SMB loses competitive advantage. ...
21/12/2007 | Quocirca_-_Information_security_for_SMBs__Dec_2007.pdf | VIEW
Banks are used to arms races. In the 1960s and 1970s the easiest way to for thieves to get hold of a bank's money was to turn up in person at branches with a gun and demand cash. So banks placed their workers behind bulletproof glass. This forced the thieves on to the roads where the vans transporting cash became the main target. When the vans themselves were armoured it was the man walking from the van to the bank who became the target, he too was armoured. ...
14/06/2008 | Hardware reputation and the online fraud arms race.pdf | VIEW
Spam has been with us, in name at least, for some 15 years. According to the watchdog Spamhaus, 90 per cent of all email now sent is spam. Fortunately that does not mean 90 per cent of our inboxes are filled with the stuff. The problem has been contained through the widespread deployment of anti-spam products and services in the highly competitive market of the past decade. ...
10/05/2008 | Tighten content security.pdf | VIEW
Avoiding user aggravations is key to mobile productivity. Low cost hardware and a plethora of options for connectivity should make it easier for employees to be more productive and take IT access to their point of need. However, outside the perimeter of the business location, additional controls need to be applied to ensure the security and integrity of data on the mobile device and network access. Balancing the need for control with the flexibility given to the user requires care and attention to both mobile strategy and implementation. Mobile users have many challenges facing them as they try to work outside of a managed and familiar working environment. Too many constraints and challenges can distract and divert users from the task in hand, meaning that productivity gains hoped for by deployment of the technology will be lost. ...
19/01/2007 | mobile_pitfalls.pdf | VIEW
Managing the challenges of mobile communications. In the competitive global marketplace, businesses are placed under increasing pressure to have a flexible and efficient workforce that is as productive as possible and reacts to customer demands and changing conditions. The mobile phone, laptop and other small smart devices for mobile connection to corporate data all support these needs, allowing access wherever required to fit business processes. This brings its own risks, but businesses depend upon the flexibility delivered by their increasingly mobile and dispersed workforce, so must adopt a positive approach to securing their intellectual and physical assets as well as their employees. There are many aspects which are explored in this paper in greater detail, but the following list provides a mobile security action plan for an organisation of any size that is aware of existing use of, or has plans to deploy and take advantage of, mobile technologies ...
29/09/2006 | Security_White_Paper.pdf | VIEW
Taking the Right Attitude to Secure Mobile Technology. When companies extend their business IT operations to mobile employees, their risks are increased as valuable software, data and devices are taken out of the protected perimeter of the office, and placed in the pockets, pouches and briefcases of users. Business processes may run more efficiently, and employer and employee have more flexibility in how they conduct the working practices, but do both parties gives sufficient attention to their responsibilities. There is a tendency to believe that where there are challenges with a particular use of technology, the solution is to apply yet more technology, but this is of little benefit if the attitudes to its use are complacent or irresponsible. ...
01/02/2006 | Mobile_Security_&_Responsibility_-_Jan_'06.pdf | VIEW
Working with technology outside the office brings many challenges. Use of laptops has grown from limited user communities to widespread desktop replacement and broad deployment. The complexity of managing these devices outside the walls of the office is something IT departments have learned to address. Remote connection has extended from fixed location dial-in to wireless on the move, and smart handheld devices such as PDAs have become networked, converging with mobile phones. This larger and more diverse community of mobile users and their devices increases the demands on the IT function which has to secure the device, data and connection to the network, keeping control of corporate assets, while at the same time supporting mobile user productivity. ...
01/06/2005 | Mobile devices and users.pdf | VIEW
