Enter the BYOD - Assessing the Risk of Infected Smart devices at the Workplace

Smartphones and tablet Computers are both pervasive and ubiquitous – they are also intrinsically unsafe data communication devices, especially if their owner jailbreaks, roots or similarly unlocks them.
But how do you secure their usage – both at home, in the field and the workplace?

With this webinar we will tell you how to raise your personal and business security bar when using smart portable devices: where the danger hot spots lie, and how those dangers can be remediated

BYOD is a reality and businesses need to build a security plan to protect their data. Guest analyst, Forrester's Dr. Chenxi Wang, discusses BYOD trends, challenges and recommendations based on her research. Darren Niller will share how Webroot has provided a single solution that allows IT to securely manage all endpoints- PC, Servers and Mobile devices.

Every day more of your users are bringing their personal ‘smart’ devices to work and connecting them to corporate resources. But what happens when one of these devices is infected with a malicious app? Join us as we discuss the various flavors of malicious apps and the impact they can have in a your IT environment. We will provide useful recommendations to IT administrators who have concerns about data leakage, phishing and other malicious activities which target these devices.

This eSeminar goes beyond concepts and looks at the performance and effectiveness of cloud-based endpoint security in the real world. Join a panel of experts as they discuss the critical aspects to consider in the evaluation and deployment of next-generation threat protection.
 
Frost & Sullivan’s Stratecast analyst, Michael Suby, will present new research on how cloud-based endpoint security solutions overcome many of the pain points caused by the aging signature-based model. Ty Smith, IT manager of offshore engineering firm Doris, Inc., will then walk you through deploying a solution that not only improved both security and user productivity but also saved hundreds of IT hours. He will also describe the evaluation criteria his team used for replacing Doris’ traditional endpoint security product, which was difficult to manage, kept employees from their work during long scans, and left infections undetected.

You’ve heard about how today’s online threats have become too sophisticated for “traditional” threat detection.  These new malware attacks are far too frequent, benign-looking until activated, and designed to bypass traditional signatures and the guesswork of heuristics.
 
So, by the time the threat is identified and your security technology is updated, it’s too late—the damage has been done.  You are also up against transient Web-based threats that appear for only hours or days.  Blacklisting becomes obsolete the moment it is deployed. And relying on whitelisting can be too restrictive.  So what are your options?
 
Cloud-based prevention collectively leverages the intelligence seen from each individual endpoint; examines the actions of individual files, IP or URLs; assesses the risks; and then takes action.  And cloud-based intelligence means you’re not relying on the current threat protection on other endpoints. Prevention is now always up-to-date and all users are instantly protected as soon as new threats appear.  This collective prevention minimizes IT workload by eliminating the need to worry about definition updates, or whether your remote workers’ protection is up-to-date.
 
Cloud-based Webroot threat prevention technologies—that power our award-winning endpoint security products—are changing the game back in favor of the ‘good guys.’ Attend this session and find out more about what’s behind the first true innovation for endpoint protection in 20 years.