Archive for June, 2010
Financial Industry Compliance: Part 1, Survey of Regulations
Jun 30th
by Val Hetrick, Fiberlink The financial industry is of course highly regulated. But what financial industry regulations and standards apply specifically to endpoints, and to data stored on mobile and distributed devices? We did a little research on the subject, and would like to share our findings. In this post we will survey several of More >
Does IT need another Bridge?
Jun 25th
By Jonathan Dale, Fiberlink According to Wikipedia: A bridge is a structure built to span a valley, road, body of water, or other physical obstacle, for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle. Sometimes I wish I could create a bridge. Like a bridge to my house to turn my commute from 60 minutes to 40. How about a More >
The Self Service Generation
Jun 22nd
By: Clint Adams Among the differences between Baby Boomers and Generation X/Yers is that the Gen X/Yers are significantly more conditioned to serving themselves. A gas station stop can illustrate a typical Baby Boomer’s service experience. You would pull up to the pump and wait for the pump jockey to appear out of the building More >
Patching – A Key Component of Vulnerability Management
Jun 22nd
by Clint Adams, Fiberlink There has been much security industry angst lately over some of the serious vulnerabilities introduced to the threat landscape by our friends at Apple, Adobe and Google. In particular, Adobe Flash and Acrobat have caused great concern and have focused the spotlight on applications as being a source of vulnerabilities. This More >
How MaaS360 Provides Better Patching
Jun 11th
by John Nielsen, Fiberlink In the last two posts we looked at statistics about patch management processes and four patch management capabilities that are missing from most patch management systems. In this post I want to look at how MaaS360 provides four capabilities that overcome these shortcomings. 1. Detailed Patch Reporting The MaaS360 Platform provides More >