Mobility and BYOD News Covered on TNNI
The use of mobile devices by government workers and contractors has recently evolved to include more than just the Blackberry. Android devices, Iphones and Ipads among others started being accepted in the workplace around 2011 as more employees pushed for the use of their personal phones at work. Today, Bring Your Own Device is one [...]
Dell has launched a new suite of offerings intended to help enterprises manage and access mobile devices and environments for employees to bring their own devices to work. The company developed the mobility portfolio to secure remote data, broaden network access to BYOD and help users access business applications from different types of mobile devices, [...]
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CGI Helps Develop Mobile Authentication for Federal Agencies; James Pyon Comments
April 19, 2013 No Comment
CGI Group, Akamai Technologies Inc. and Daon Inc. have launched a multi-factor mobile authentication-as-a-service designed to help secure transactions of federal employees and avoid network compromise. The MAaaS solution integrates Daon’s IdentityX authentication into Akamai’s platform to allow federal agencies to secure various mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets and laptops at the application level [...]
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Dell Survey: 56% Say BYOD Changed Company IT Culture; Carol Fawcett Comments
January 23, 2013 No CommentMore than half of respondents to a Dell survey of information technology executives said allowing employees to bring their own mobile devices to work changed their company’s IT culture and business culture. The company said 56 percent of respondents said BYOD changed IT culture and 54 percent changed business culture. Seventy-percent said they believe BYOD [...]
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Shamun Mahmud: DLT Seeing Similar Trends In Private, Public Sector Cloud Adoption
January 22, 2013 No Comment
Shamun Mahmud, cloud security architect at DLT Solutions, highlighted recent survey findings from SailPoint in that firm’s annual market pulse survey on information technology mobility and cloud computing. In a blog post, Mahmud compared Sailpoint’s findings for the commercial sector to what DLT sees in the public sector. Mahmud wrote the rates of cloud adoption [...]
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Many federal employees still use smartphones for work purposes despite their agency’s lack of a policy on workers bringing their own mobile devices into the office, a Cisco and GovLoop survey says. Nextgov reports the survey of 108 GovLoop members found 41 percent use their devices for email, 30 percent for reading and writing, 21 [...]
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The Health and Human Services Department‘s Chief Technology Officers Council announced that employees with personal smartphones and tablets should pay for their devices’ configuration and services for secure access to agency information. NextGov reports that the HHS Mobile Technology Strategy also states that employees must receive secure express approval for personal devices from division technology [...]
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The White House has released an updated guidance for agencies on implementing “bring your own device” policies, Nextgov reports. Brittany Ballendstedt writes that a working group used recent BYOD programs at other agencies to form this new BYOD guidance. Goals of allowing employees to bring their own mobile devices into work include improved productivity, work-life [...]
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Mitre Corp. is hosting an industry seminar at its Annapolis Junction, Md. headquarters, where the Defense Information Systems Agency will meet with vendors to discuss mobile device management. In a Tuesday FedBizOpps post, DISA said it also wants industry to provide best commercial practices for a mobile application store and securing both company-owned and employee-owned [...]
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