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GUEST OPINION: As another holiday shopping season arrives, with sales and special offers everywhere you turn, it is important to remember that the cybercriminals are also out in force, taking advantage of the noise, confusion, impatience, and stress. This is not just a consumer risk, but a business one.

GUEST OPINION: Mobile-powered initiatives are critical to profitability, productivity and competitiveness. Mobile devices and apps are how customers interact with organisations and how employees access resources, collaborate and work.

COMPANY NEWS: Zimperium, the leading mobile security solution for endpoints and apps, today announced the launch of the Zimperium Mobile-First Security Platform.

COMPANY NEWS: Jamf, the standard in managing and securing Apple at work, announced that as of 31 December 2022, it is now helping approximately 71,000 active customers succeed with Apple and is running on approximately 30 million devices worldwide.

Apple enterprise management specialist Jamf is using its Jamf Nation User Conference to showcase a range of new capabilities.

The market size of enterprise mobility in Australia, in terms of spending opportunity, is set to reach US$1.4 billion in 2025, forecasts data and analytics company GlobalData.

COMPANY NEWS: With more than 11,000 Apple administrators around the world in attendance, Jamf, the standard in Apple enterprise management, kicked off its 12th annual Jamf Nation user conference. Jamf showed how its Apple enterprise management platform connects authorised people and devices to work resources, protects people and organisations from threats and empowers IT and end users with devices that are simple to support and easy to use. Jamf now serves more than 57,000 customers and runs on approximately 25 million devices worldwide.

GUEST OPINION: Anyone who has ever watched a Bond movie will know that James Bond has a trust complex. Whether it's M, MI6, or a femme fatale – Bond always gets into trouble when he trusts the wrong person (i.e., Vesper Lynd in Casino Royale).

GUEST OPINION by Jonathan Andresen, Bitglass: It wasn’t too long ago that most of us used to work in an office. Fifteen months into the global COVID pandemic it’s now certain that the future will not be a full return to the office or a continuation of the present remote working experience – it will be both.

Bitglass today announced findings from its 2021 BYOD Security Report that show the rapid adoption of unmanaged personal devices connecting to work-related resources (aka BYOD) and why organisations are ill-equipped to deal with growing security threats such as malware and data theft.

Even as organisations continue to adopt cloud technologies, the need for secure access to on-premises resources endures.

GUEST OPINION by Jim Cook, Attivo Networks: The COVID-19 pandemic has been a rough and costly period for many organisations, yet for one group, it has opened up a raft of potentially lucrative new targets.

Smart home devices and their apps represent a major weak link in the corporate cyber security chain as the lines between work and home life increasingly blur, according to one security firm that conducted a survey revealing 36% of Australian workers use personal devices to access corporate data – often via services and applications hosted in the cloud.

VENDOR PROMOTION: The increased use of personal phones for work and the growth of mobile malware create a risk to organisations, says network monitoring provider Gigamon.

VENDOR PROMOTION: The increased use of personal phones for work and the growth of mobile malware create a risk to organisations, says network monitoring provider Gigamon.

By Jonathan Andresen

GUEST OPINION Few would argue with Thomas Edison who said: “The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”

GUEST OPINION Few would argue with Thomas Edison who said: “The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”

GUEST OPINION by Ashley Diffey, Ping Identity: As the number of infections rises around the world, many companies have directed their employees to work from home as a cautionary measure in an effort to assist in flattening the curve. What at first was seen as a short term situation is being extended without a known or defined end date.

GUEST OPINION by Ashley Diffey, Ping Identity: As the number of infections rises around the world, many companies have directed their employees to work from home as a cautionary measure in an effort to assist in flattening the curve. What at first was seen as a short term situation is being extended without a known or defined end date.

The number of people with disabilities who are employed will triply by 2023 because artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies will reduce barriers to access, the technology research firm Gartner has predicted as part of its forecast for IT organisations and users in 2020 and beyond.