Daily Mobile Computing Feed ? Oct 10, 2012

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• Rapid7 buys Mobilisafe, expands security suite to BYOD

ZDNet Rapid7, the company behind popular information security testing tools Metasploit and Nexpose, has acquired mobile risk management firm Mobilisafe, with plans to enter the bring your own device (BYOD) market. The value of the acquisition has not been ? (more)

• Bulking Up For BYOD: Veracode Aquires Marvin Mobile Security

It?s an exciting day here at Veracode as we?ve just announced our first ever company acquisition. We?re pleased to announce that we have acquired the assets ? (more)

• What Star Wars Teaches Us About BYOD and IT Security ? eSecurity ?

What Star Wars Teaches Us About BYOD and IT Security ? Officer), APT ( Advanced Persistent ? (more)

• Data Loss from Missing Devices Ranks First Among Top Mobile Threats

Billing World Dan Hubbard, CTO of OpenDNS, said, ?As we move further into an era where mobile computing is ubiquitous, we?re seeing an entirely new threat landscape that involves newer concerns like lost devices and rogue marketplaces, but also a heightened level ? (more)

• Firms wrestle with security in a Bring Your Own Device world

U-T San Diego The trend is known as Bring Your Own Device, or BYOD. Conference sponsor CTIA said it?s the top issue for businesses trying to manage the growing number of mobile devices in the workplace. Smartphone and tablets are forecast to become big players at ? (more)

• Should Schools Allow Students to BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)?

Patch.com There has been a shift in thinking about technology in our schools. For decades now, schools have played a role in introducing technology concepts to students. From the computer labs of the 1980s to the single computer on the teacher?s desk to ? (more)

• Rapid7 enters lucrative BYOD security market with Mobilisafe buy

FierceMobileIT With $50 million in venture capital funding burning a hole in its pocket, information security testing firm Rapid7 has decided to enter the BYOD security market with the purchase of mobile security firm Mobilisafe. Last November, Rapid7 said it would ? (more)

• Meru Networks Confronts the Crush of BYOD and Sets New Standard for WLAN ?

Equities.com The new, ultra-capacity wireless products are the latest advancements in Meru wireless innovation and engineered to address the crushing network requirements of BYOD while maintaining choice and control of both wireless and wired network infrastructure ? (more)

• RIM Zeroes In On Separation Of Work And Play In BlackBerry OS 10: Will

That ? TechCrunch The challenge this presents is that instead of being an answer to the BYOD problem that satisfies both IT departments eager to regain control and users looking for freedom, this could just push people to look for platforms where easy access to the ? (more)

• BYOD Will Fundamentally Change How We See the Cloud

DABCC.com Addressing the latter point first, the analyst believes that trends such as BYOD are going change the way things are done in the enterprise on a very fundamental level. He goes into more detail about the computing aspect, an area where the consumer ? (more)

• BB10 close to providing ?power of a laptop in a mobile device?

TechRadar UK ? users, those who spend 40 percent of their time multi-tasking on a RIM device as opposed to 30 percent on average. ?BlackBerry 10 provides a flow that allows you to take action,? she said. ?We are building the mobile computing platform of the ? (more)

• Freescale, Tilera Unveil New Networking Processors

eWeek The chips are aimed at helping businesses each the bandwidth crunch on networks caused by such trends as BYOD, mobile computing, video and cloud. Tilera and Freescale Semiconductor are both coming out with new processors targeting corporate ? (more)

• ClassLink Offers Free BYOD Guidebook and Resources to Schools ?

? is offering resources to schools in all stages of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). Whether you?re researching, planning, implementing or managing a BYOD ? (more)

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