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Mobile Security

• It’s 2016, and there’s still no common practice around mobile anti-malware and security products

  Despite all the doom and gloom predictions, very few companies are going beyond EMM and using third-party mobile security products. Should we still just wait and see what happens?  Continue Reading

• Vera takes aim at document tracking for the mobile / cloud era

  The time is right for document tracking, and Vera is well-positioned to take advantage.  Continue Reading

• MobileIron is joining the EMM+identity trend with MobileIron Access

  Identity Management is becoming more important, and vendors like MobileIron are noticing.  Continue Reading

• What's going on in Virtual Mobile Infrastructure? An update on Hypori, Avast, Nubo, and more

  At this time last year, Virtual Mobile Infrastructure was a hot topic. Here's what's been going on since then.  Continue Reading

• Pulse Secure’s VPN/EMM/NAC platform is now adding support for cloud apps with SAML 2.0

  This week Pulse Secure added a major new component to their VPN, EMM, and NAC platform by announcing support for SAML 2.0. This will allow them to extend their reach into cloud applications.  Continue Reading

• Centrify has been working on broader MFA, derived credentials, ID for the extended enterprise & more

  Today at the RSA conference, Centrify is announcing that multi-factor authentication is now available throughout the entirety of their identity and access management offerings. This is just the latest in string of new MFA options that Centrify has ...  Continue Reading

• How could the Apple and FBI encryption dispute affect enterprise mobility management?

  Many other media outlets have covered Apple and the FBI over encryption from all sorts of angles, but there's also an enterprise mobility management angle: This case could affect how companies use mobile device management and what type of mobile ...  Continue Reading

• VMware announces Workspace One, the next stage of their EUC convergence efforts.

  Today VMware is announcing Workspace One, the next version of Workspace Suite. It includes significant updates to VMware Identity Manager as well as several other big desktop virtualization-related announcements.  Continue Reading

• Digging into the AirWatch and Intel collaboration

  Back in January, AirWatch announced that they are collaborating with Intel on security, and both companies became members of each other's security partner programs. The press release talked about things like a "bi-directional fabric that can resolve...  Continue Reading

• Friday vendor notes: A conversation with Ping Identity

  Over the last year I've been following the identity and access management space more closely - along with EMM, it's a key component of end user computing in the world of cloud apps and mobile devices.  Continue Reading

• Identity management technologies mean you can say “yes” more easily.

  Since I went to Okta's conference a few weeks ago, I've been thinking a lot about identity management, provisioning, and the idea of users and business units choosing their own cloud apps. All the interesting developments in this space can be ...  Continue Reading

• Here’s our full look at Okta and all the announcements from their Identity Management conference

  This week I was at Oktane, the conference put on by Okta, the identity and access management (IAM) as-a-service vendor. This is the first time I've written about Okta, but I've been following them for a while since identity is an increasingly ...  Continue Reading

• Digging into virtual mobile infrastructure: What are the right use cases for VMI?

  Virtual mobile infrastructure (VMI) was a big topic of conversation at BriForum. We've written about VMI before, but the BriForum session that Gabe Knuth and I gave covered a lot more ground, so over the the next few weeks I'll be sharing various ...  Continue Reading

• AV vendor Avast is getting into EMM by acquiring Remotium, a virtual mobile infrastructure startup

  Today Avast Security is announcing that it is acquiring Remotium. Avast is primarily known for its free consumer antivirus products and Remotium is a virtual mobile infrastructure (VMI) provider.  Continue Reading

• Are you ready for VMI (Virtual Mobile Infrastructure)? It's like VDI, but for remoting mobile OSes

  Gabe, Jack, and I have started talking about VMI more and more on our podcasts and at our events, but it just occurred to me that we never actually wrote a "This is VMI" article for BrianMadden.com.  Continue Reading