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Wednesday
May162012

iCloud and MDM - a good thing.

ElcomSoft discovers yet another way to access information stored in Apple iOS devices by retrieving online backups from Apple iCloud storage. The company updates Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker, a tool to retrieve user content from password-protected backups created by Apple iOS devices and BlackBerry smartphones, with the ability to retrieve iPhones’ user data from iCloud. No lengthy attacks and no physical access to an iPhone device are required: the data is downloaded directly onto investigators’ computers (PC) from Apple remote storage facilities in plain, unencrypted form. Backups to multiple devices registered with the same Apple ID can be effortlessly retrieved. Investigators need to know user’s original Apple ID and password in order to gain access to online backups.
You can read the entire news release at http://www.elcomsoft.com/PR/iCloud_120515_en.pdf

 

So now how to stop this?  Fortunatley the MDM world has an answer.  As part of the core suite of Mobile Deivce Managment tools that MSC offers, a default policy can be set to disable iCloud backup all together.  This is a parental control and can not be user overridden.  

Can you afford for your company data to be backed up to iCloud?  If not talk to us today to discuss your options.

 

Friday
Jan272012

iOS holds 94% of the enterprise market in 4Q 2011. 

Good Technolgies release quarterly smartphone market statistics based on the number of activations they see flowing through their Network Operations Center (NOC).  This data is especially useful for us to be able to gauge the real uptake of smart devices in the enterprise.  Most of the market data that is published includes the rapidly growing consumer market which can sometime skew the results.

Key Points from the report include:

  • iOS tablets represented roughly 94 percent of total activations for Q4 2011
  • The iPhone 4S represented 31 percent of all activations for the quater
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Friday
Oct142011

AirWatch Offers Complete Support for Apple iOS 5 with v5.16

Deploy, secure, monitor, manage and support your mobile devices with AirWatch.

AirWatch, the global leader and innovator in mobile security, mobile device management (MDM) and mobile application management (MAM), offers complete support for Apple iPhone, iPod touch and iPad devices using iOS 5 within AirWatch's latest release 5.16.

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Tuesday
Aug022011

Mobility Monthly - July 2011

Once a month I like to reflect back on the announcements that are shaping the mobile world as we know it today. This month includes: iOS 5 Betas, Zitmo, Windows Phone Mango, Mozilla and more.

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Sunday
Jul312011

CellCast App 4.2.1 for iPad/iPhone released

What's new in Version 4.2.1

Improved player for accessing podcasts
Support for optional "short cuts" menu system.
Update to password process for self-registration
Minor bug fixes.

Monday
Jul182011

App Store Volume Purchasing for Business

Unleash the power of the App Store to your entire workforce.

Good news everyone, Apple have just announced they are extending their App Store Volume Purchasing program from previously being limited to Education in the USA to include businesses in the USA.  We see this as step 2 in what is hopefully a 3 step journey to Australia.  This is another great sign of how Apple is taking notice of the enterprise and reacting accordingly.  With a mobile device management platform and a Managed Service from MSC your organisation would be very well placed to take advantage of centrally purchasing and distributing apps to your staff.  

Any guess on when we will see it in Australia?  Leave a comment.

Saturday
Jul092011

Apple iOS Security Flaw Discovered in Germany

It is interesting to note that the Germans were the people who found the last major security issue with
Apples iOS mobile operating system some months back.   The embedded video is worth a watch.
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Apple Inc. said Thursday it is working to resolve a security hole in its iPhone and other mobile products that German authorities warned could allow cyber criminals to access confidential information or intercept phone conversations.

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Wednesday
Jul062011

Apple Becomes Australia's Number One Mobile Brand

It is very rare for us to see mobile device stats for the Australian market (most are US based) so it is great to see IDC publishing some Aussie data.  Keep it coming.
Australia certainly had a great jump start with iPhone with all 3 carriers offering the iPhone 3G on day 1 unlike the single carrier options of other countries.  We are quite sure this has something to do with the numbers below but that to one side... wow what a decline by Nokia.

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Wednesday
Jun292011

Good Technology releases mobile device management capabilities

 

Good Technology is pleased to announce that a new version of Good for Enterprise for Exchange server software is now available. Good Mobile Messaging for Exchange v.6.3.1.23 and Good Mobile Control v.1.3.1.77 are available. These server upgrades are required to take advantage of the new features included in the upcoming Good for Enterprise –iOS and Good for Enterprise –Android client releases.

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Tuesday
Jun072011

Is iOS 5 enterprise ready?

Well it's that time of the year again when Steve Jobs takes the stand at WWDC to roll out the vision for Apple for the next 12 months.

What is great to see is that Apple are starting to take notice of the issues that we here at MSC are all to familiar with... how do you support an iOS device in an enterprise?

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