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.

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

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. Click to read more ... MSC Mobility Admin | Post a Comment | Share Article tagged air-watch, airwatch, apple, iCloud, ios 5, ios5 in News Article, Press Release Email Article Permalink Print Article Wednesday Oct052011 iOS 5 for enterprise, iCloud concerns, siri and more Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 10:37AM In the wee early hours of this morning Australian time Apple released the final details for iOS 5 and the new iPhone 4S.  First pass the important info to consider. October 12th iOS 5 will be made available for everyone.  Make sure your MDM is compatible with iOS 5 by this date or you might just find a whole bunch of issues crop up as your users take the update and then find they cannot connect to your corporate email server. iOS 5 and over the air updates (OTA) should greatly assist enterprise customers and the aggressive update cycle that comes with it.  Moving to delta changes rather than entire OS updates should relieve the bandwidth and need for iTunes to be installed on workstations. As for the hardware as we expected it is faster and better with the iPhone 4S.  Enterprise wise it will support mirroring so you can plug it into a projector like you can currently do with an iPad2.  This should come in handy for sales people on the go in conjunction with Keynote and a secure file transfer (enterprise dropbox) service. iCloud - We cannot confirm if iCloud will be turned on by default yet but stay tuned for more info as it comes to hand.  The auto backup of documents, contacts and calendars events to a US based server is probably not the optimal outcome for Australian enterprise and government customers.  Until our MDM partners release a 'post iOS 5' update to detect and manage iCloud settings you will unfortunately be flying blind on what is turned on and what is being backed up to iCloud.  A demo of what iCloud is all about starts as 37 mins into video http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/11piuhbvdlbkvoih10/event/index.html Siri the personal assistant - If this actually works with an Aussie accent it will be fantastic for listening to text messages while in the car or replying to emails, booking calendar appointments etc.  The demo of Siri the personal assistant starts at 73mins in the video on page http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/11piuhbvdlbkvoih10/event/index.html It actually reminds me of IBM's Watson only a bit smaller. MSC Mobility Admin | Post a Comment | Share Article tagged apple ios5, iCloud in MSC Article Email Article Permalink Print Article MSC Mobility proudly supports the following Mobile Device Management Platforms Copyright © 2011, MSC Mobility Solutions.   All rights reserved.     View our Privacy Policy      Contact Us

iOS 5 for enterprise, iCloud concerns, siri and more

In the wee early hours of this morning Australian time Apple released the final details for iOS 5 and the new iPhone 4S.  First pass the important info to consider.

1. October 12th iOS 5 will be made available for everyone.  Make sure your MDM is compatible with iOS 5 by this date or you might just find a whole bunch of issues crop up as your users take the update and then find they cannot connect to your corporate email server.
2. iOS 5 and over the air updates (OTA) should greatly assist enterprise customers and the aggressive update cycle that comes with it.  Moving to delta changes rather than entire OS updates should relieve the bandwidth and need for iTunes to be installed on workstations.
3. As for the hardware as we expected it is faster and better with the iPhone 4S.  Enterprise wise it will support mirroring so you can plug it into a projector like you can currently do with an iPad2.  This should come in handy for sales people on the go in conjunction with Keynote and a secure file transfer (enterprise dropbox) service.
4. iCloud - We cannot confirm if iCloud will be turned on by default yet but stay tuned for more info as it comes to hand.  The auto backup of documents, contacts and calendars events to a US based server is probably not the optimal outcome for Australian enterprise and government customers.  Until our MDM partners release a 'post iOS 5' update to detect and manage iCloud settings you will unfortunately be flying blind on what is turned on and what is being backed up to iCloud.  A demo of what iCloud is all about starts as 37 mins into video http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/11piuhbvdlbkvoih10/event/index.html
5. Siri the personal assistant - If this actually works with an Aussie accent it will be fantastic for listening to text messages while in the car or replying to emails, booking calendar appointments etc.  The demo of Siri the personal assistant starts at 73mins in the video on page http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/11piuhbvdlbkvoih10/event/index.html It actually reminds me of IBM's Watson only a bit smaller.