As more and more organisations employ BYOD policies there becomes more of a need to investigate the best way to balance user privacy with the right levels of corporate security. So it's great to see Apple have announced plans to introduce a new way of managing iOS devices: User Enrollment!

At Bridgeway, the solutions that we provide involve collaboration from a series of partner vendors, and these are reviewed regularly to ensure they are fit for purpose and suitable for our customers' long term strategies.

In recent years the annual Infosecurity Europe conference has been accused of being too tech heavy. And while that is still certainly the case on the main floor, this year there was a fresh approach to holding such a huge and overwhelming event with a host of interesting talks, panel discussions and presentations that focused on the challenges and pain points, and future ideas rather than just heavy going marketplace. This year hot topics ranged from cyber resilience, threat intelligence and AI and machine learning.

Heralded as Apple’s most important developer conference in years, the annual Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in California revealed groundbreaking new developments in everything from new hardware to a new iPad operating system and a revamped iOS 13. So what does this mean for enterprises using managed mobile devices, and in particular their IT staff, the end-users, and the organisation as a whole?

So what was the vision for the future from MobileIron at their Live! event in Berlin this month? Well it centred around password-less access to cloud services, instead using biometrics together with photo verification. A vision that will see the removal of the biggest weakness in Cloud, in fact IT, security. This coupled with the controls provided by the MobileIron platform to not only authenticate the user but also the device and the application, provide a robust security offering for the future of cloud service access.

The perimeter is broken and mobile is dictating the way we both live and work. At MobileIron Live! 2019, that took place last week, over 500 professionals from the info sec industry came together at the Motorwerk centre in Berlin to hear about this new approach. 

You know the drill. An email pops into your account from “HMRC”, your bank, Amazon’s “CustomerCare” or another familiar company. The sender format is identical to something you would associate with such recognisable organisations, but you smell a rat. Yep, it’s another phishing scam waiting for you to take their bait and click on a link. Report, delete and you’ve dodged another bullet from the murky world of cyberattacks.

It's becoming increasingly common to use WhatsApp for work. This popular app once used solely for social messaging between friends,  is now showing up more often in the workplace. We've even seen reports that at G8 conferences, teams of negotiators use WhatsApp for realtime collaboration with colleagues and even sending tentative proposals between teams.

MobileIron Live! is about to land in Berlin. Are you planning on attending? If so please drop by our stand and say hello.

We caught up with CIO of Campfire Asset Management, Paul-Emile Andre. Paul-Emile has over 7 years IT leadership experience across the asset management sector. Working as an analyst across the construction, retail and security industries, he moved into a CIO role at Hong Kong investment firm SOWI Group for five years before joining Campfire Asset Management as CIO in 2017.

We caught up with top digital transformation influencer Jos Creese to discuss the current challenges that many CIOs face. Jos has over 30 years IT leadership experience, including CIO and CDO roles, and a variety of Non-Exec Director positions (including audit, risk and chair). He is a past president of both the Society of IT Management (SOCITM), the BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, and has been cited as ‘the most influential UK CIO’ in the Silicon 50 survey.

As most security breaches come as a result of social engineering, organisations are now looking to educate their staff on the the increasing threat of cyber attacks. These breaches arrive in the form of phishing, where bad actors send emails with deceptive content to attract and engage users, leading to unknowing downloads of malware or visibility into bank accounts or personal details.

The world of emerging tech is complex and often daunting. We can quickly get used to shutting ourselves away, confined within our own working environment and left to deal with all the various struggles and challenges that arise by ourselves - or if you’re lucky enough, with a supportive team. That’s why at Bridgeway we host our Cloud & Mobile Security Forum events, because we hear how valuable it is for IT professionals to come together outside the office with peers and share their challenges, issues and ways to overcome them. 

The results from this week’s university hacking test are shocking - but things are only going to get worse. Cybercrime is not going away, in fact it is growing in scale despite organisations efforts to prevent it. So what can we do about it?

We caught up with top digital transformation influencer and Advice Cloud Strategic Adviser Jos Creese. Jos has over 30 years IT leadership experience, including CIO and CDO roles, and a variety of Non-Exec Director positions (including audit and risk and chair). He is a past president of both the Society of IT Management (SOCITM) and the BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, and has been cited as 'the most influential UK CIO' in the Silicon 50 survey.

As high-grade security evolves to combat increasingly complex threats, why are basic attacks still enormously successful?

We meet the delegates who have completed our MobileIron training course here at Bridgeway HQ, in Cambridge.

It has never been more vital for public sector organisations to safeguard personal data against unprecedented cyber threats. Risks from cyberattacks, with email being the main attack vector, have the potential to cripple services and affect day-to-day functioning of public administration at all levels.

We meet the delegates who have completed our MobileIron training course here at Bridgeway HQ, in Cambridge.

Consider all of your business data. Every email, instant message, document, image, video, article, spreadsheet... It’s a larger collection than you think and these days, in the highly regulated world of business, organisations need to account for and store their data for long periods of time.