Preventing Malware – Keeping Safe and Out of the News

What is Wi-Fi optimization? It delivers increased productivity. It enables streamlined workflow. It results in faster ROI. In other words, it enables you to conduct your business without worrying about your wireless network getting in the way. With wireless networks typically designed with less than 5% the capacity of wired, users have come to expect less when they are connected wirelessly. Wireless optimization ends the era of under-performance — come find out what it’s all about:

- User optimization – simplify and secure the process of onboarding users
- Application optimization – control and prioritize your critical applications
- Device optimization – not every device is the same, so don’t treat them all equally
- Spectrum optimization – ensuring RF is tuned to deliver maximum performance
- Capacity optimization – wireless design to handle future requirements

Mobile services must be ubiquitous meaning they should be available anywhere and able to communicate across service providers as well as country boundaries. A concept called IPX or IP eXchange is a global interworking and interconnection cloud that enables a wide variety of services – especially for today’s increasingly IP ecosystem. While the direct beneficiaries are Mobile Network Operators, the IPX will also benefit fixed and OTT service providers as well as Enterprises and of course, ultimately the subscribers or end users.

This webinar will:
- Provide an overview of the IPX
- Show how the IPX is used today
- Explain IPX benefits to both Mobile Network Operators and other Service Providers
- Explain how IPX will evolve going forward to encompass a variety of new services

Learn about the key benefits of extending your IT infrastructure to the highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the AWS cloud.

Benjamin Robbins, Principal, Palador; (moderator)
Vishy Gopalakrishna, VP, SAP;
Ben Smith, Head of Mobil Product, Tribal Labs;
Rob Tiffany, Senior CATM Strategist, Microsoft

Xirrus has kicked off 2013 with a world tour to promote several significant additions to our product lineup. We have extended our high performance XR Array product line with a new cost effective, yet full performance Access Point. True to our heritage of creating solutions that enable wired-like performance from wireless networks, this new solution delivers application-level control and RF optimization like no other AP on the market. In addition, it is supported by our new cloud-based management and provisioning that greatly simplifies the activation and ongoing operation of Xirrus wireless networks while reducing the resource and CAPEX requirements on your IT department.

What you will learn:
- How to provide a cost effective wireless solution with uncompromised features and performance
- How to deliver a wireless solutions that can scale from low to ultra-high user densities
- How to deliver improved wireless user experience prioritizing critical over recreational applications
- How cloud-enabled activation can speed deployment with zero touch provisioning

Are you faced with needing to build (or rebuild) your enterprise mobile testing strategy?

Many people are trying to find the answers to this and many similar questions as mobile continues to evolve at a fast pace and enterprises are finding the revenue opportunities and pitfalls mobile brings.

Vivit worldwide is proud to bring to you from our leaders in the Mobile SIG a special 1-hour webinar. You will learn from recognized leaders and experts, Todd DeCapua, Eran Kinsbruner and Brian Pohl, enabling you to make informed decisions on the key elements of a successful mobile testing strategy.

Throughout this session, we will have polls and questions to keep it interactive and provide you with industry feedback which you can also use. Your participation is encouraged.

Key Points

1. Get a quick overview to the key elements required in building your mobile testing strategy

2. Understand why each key element provides a challenge and what you could consider

3. Decide which key elements are most important and what you might want to do about your enterprise mobile testing strategy now

Enterprises are under tremendous pressure to “mobilize” their enterprise apps for consumers and employees. Mobilizing enterprise apps can provide a boost in increasing revenues and employee productivity. Time to market is of paramount importance but companies are short on resources and expertise. But there are a few strategies that can help companies get organized, be proactive, and rapidly develop and deploy these mobile apps. We will discuss these strategies, challenges, issues, and solutions that can help you execute your mobile initiatives successfully.

In 2013, the big buzzwords that have been casually thrown around will evolve into serious business opportunities for both vendors and end-users. Many significant decisions will be made by CIO's that will affect how the IT department's role within an enterprise.

In this outlook to 2013, Neuralytix will provide an outlook to how the IT industry will evolve. Topics include:
- Big Data
- Cloud
- Mobility
- Security
- Social Networking

Neuralytix will also look at some of the best practices that CIOs need to implement to stay relevant in 2013.

The invasion of employee-owned devices, consumer-grade OS's, and unsanctioned mobile apps is exposing organizations to a new wave of security threats and compliance concerns. But the shift to a BYOD world also presents a unique opportunity to re-invent your endpoint security and data protection strategies with a greater focus on securing and managing the apps and the data, rather than the devices themselves, and providing employees with greater flexibility without compromising on security and compliance.

Join Dan Ford from Fixmo to learn about the following topics:

- Security and compliance impacts of BYOD
- Threats and vulnerabilities in iOS, Android and BlackBerry
- Preventing jailbroken OS's, policy hacking and other dangerous exploits
- Protecting your data on BYOD through an IT-controlled secure sandbox approach
- Mobile Risk Management as a strategic approach to security and compliance in a BYOD world

Looking at real use cases this presentation to uncover best practices for minimizing the risk of BYOD.

Gerry D'Agostino of RiskIQ will be looking at the history, current environment and new exploits impacts of Rogue Mobile Applications. By reviewing real use cases with specific incident data, we will be able to look at industry responses, organizational policies, and protective measures that enterprises can implement to minimize the Risks of BYOD. We will review trends and look at the potential near term effects on security, risk and compliance groups.

Join us in a discussion on what security features to consider when choosing an MDM solution for your enterprise or government needs. We will also touch on BYOD, Internal App Stores, and Secure App Development for iOS and Android.

The consumerization of IT is hitting hard and Mobile Device Managment (MDM) needs mobile security. Personal and corporate-owned devices are flooding the workplace. Companies need to secure these devices, and they are turning to Mobile Device Management (MDM).

But an MDM solution will not address your primary concerns around securing your data. Learn how to safely allow mobile devices in the workplace while protecting against mobile threats and data loss.
Key topics in the session will include:

· Mobility trends including consumerization of IT
· Profile of a mobile user
· Current approaches to Mobile Security
· The Websense approach

Best practices to secure and separate the personal from the corporate on mobile devices.

The Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend has brought added challenges to the enterprise. As more employees connect to the corporate network with their personal devices, complexities emerge around data and management. When it comes to BYOD it is increasingly clear that there is a need for separation of the personal from the professional.

IT administrators need a strategy on how to control policy, management, and data removal in isolation on personal devices. Organizations are turning to mobile virtualization to solve this issue.

Join us on July 11th to discover the best practices on how to secure and separate the personal from corporate on mobile devices through mobile virtualization.

Panel:

Benjamin Robbins, Principal, Palador Inc
Ben Goodman, Lead Evangelist, VMware Horizon
Nick Turner, VP Biz Dev, Enterproid
Carl Nerup, VP of Business Development, OK Labs

Current mobile security solutions are not protecting confidential and sensitive information contained in emails accessed and sent by mobile smartphones.

Email remains the #1 business application for mobile smartphones. Many organisations are realising that today’s mobile security solutions do not protect sensitive data and email end-to-end across internal and external recipients. Traditional, container-based approaches to securing email on smartphones have encountered limited success due to their complexity to use and deploy, which impacts user productivity. These approaches usually leave a lot to be desired or just plain don't work. They also require complex configuration files, key management, administration and provisioning – not to mention the multiple end-user steps to access encrypted emails and attachments.

But what if your mobile users could send and read encrypted email on leading iOS, Android, and Blackberry devices using the native experience without the hassle of web browsers, managing certificates, or awkward proxy servers? What if you could manage granular email data protection policies across corporate and personal mobile devices, both inside and outside the enterprise, from a unified console? What if you can protect your email persistently end to end, across different clients and applications, inside and outside of your corporate firewall?

I'll be taking a top down approach for mobile device management, looking at some of the business aspects as well as the technical capabilities of MDM solutions and why MDM is necessary in order for organisations to reduce the risks to the compromise of data confidentiality, integrity, and availability (CIA Triad).

Some of the topics of this webinar include mobile device management, market trends and market share, mobile platform capabilities, mobile threats and landscape, MDM solutions, and delivery methods. I'll also be touching on mobility and compliance using PCI-DSS as an example, and how mobile devices and mobile device management impacts other process areas within the organisation.

Then I'll take some time to get into BYOD which is a hot topic today due to its inherent cost savings. I'll be sharing with you a white paper titled the 10 Commandments of BOYD from MaaS360 which I found very interesting as it gives a quick summary of what to consider before adopting BYOD and the importance of BYOD policies. And then if time permits, I'll get into a case study to illustrate the benefits of effective mobile device management within an organisation.

At Happiest Minds, I'm involved in a number of activities from pre-sales consultancy, project planning, managing vendor relationships, training, and all
of the other things that go along with getting a start-up company up and off the ground.

Ratification of the next generation IEEE wireless standard, 802.11n, is just around the corner. 802.11n brings data rates of several hundred megabits per second, which many analysts say is instrumental in WiFi replacing Ethernet switching to the desktop. But is wireless really a capable replacement? Our speaker, Mr. Douglas Haider, will explore the performance, security, scalability, and reliability of next generation wireless LANs. Mr. Haider will address both the technical and business requirements of the audience. The presentation is built around a case study and is packed with specific recommendations, suggested tools, and information on where to find additional resources.

Security is one of the key is one of the top two key concerns of the more than 26 million small businesses in the US. With more mobile devices and laptops, the security challenge increases. What’s more, security is a major concern to the federal government and is highlighted in the stimulus package.

In this webcast you will learn:
1. How to create safe harbors can yield financial benefits for small businesses?
2. Where the REAL risks are?
3. How to create safe harbors for your business?
4. About cost effective tools that can have a positive financial impact on your business today?

Malware is being creating at a volume that now increases tenfold every few months. Other sorts of attacks also affect the security of your organizations confidential data and systems. Come hear a discussion of the security best practices you need to consider when evaluating whether or not you are doing all you need to prevent such attacks from compromising your security

Modernization of the electrical grid in the United States into a next generation smart grid has become a national priority. WikiPedia describes a smart grid as follows “A smart grid delivers electricity from suppliers to consumers using digital technology to save energy and cost. Such a modernized electricity network is being promoted by many governments as a way of addressing energy independence or global warming issues. For example, if smart grid technologies made the United States grid 5% more efficient, it would equate to eliminating the fuel and greenhouse gas emissions from 53 million cars. The then President-elect; now President Barack Obama asked the United States Congress "to act without delay" to pass legislation that included doubling alternative energy production in the next three years and building a new electricity "smart grid".”

The UCLA Smartgrid project proposes the development of wireless infrastructure to from the house to the grid via an architecture called WINSmartgrid (http://winmec.ucla.edu/smartgrid). This Wireless Smartgrid project provides an enabling Wireless Internet Technology for achieving the goals of the electricity smart grid by allowing power consumption within households to be smoothened out, thereby resulting in a flatter demand curve and more efficient production. It is a low-power, low payload, optimized, wireless platform technology that allows electricity operated appliances such as plug-in automobile, washer, dryer, or, air conditioner to be wirelessly monitored, connected and controlled via a Smart Wireless hub called REWINS (http://winmec.ucla.edu/rewins). The WinSmartGrid technology connects home appliances to the WinSmartGrid web service that receives live feeds from utilities and external sources on information such as instantaneous price of power, future prices, etc., and sends control signals to the WinSmartGrid Edgeware controller which in turn dynamically controls various appliances in real time.