Ensuring that mobile applications are truly secure

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	Ensuring that mobile applications are truly secure Mobile devices are the next big platform for serious business and consumer applications. Smartphones and tablets are now home to apps for mobile payments, banking, healthcare, customer service, product inventory, law enforcement and so much more. But they may be putting sensitive data at risk. viaForensics offers a unique service to uncover vulnerabilities. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed The CIO's New Guide to Design of Global IT Infrastructure Is it possible to eliminate the impact of distance? This paper explores the 5 key principles successful CIOs are using to redesign IT infrastructure of any size. Learn how to be prepared to adapt your environment in a way that supports distributed employees, anytime anywhere collaboration and the need for business continuity during a disaster. Read now! In this Issue CIOs Don't Need to Be Business Leaders How to innovate and tighten your belt simultaneously Panel: Future CIOs will have careers blending non-tech roles with traditional IT duties INSIDER IaaS: Renting on-demand technology Gartner: Don't trust cloud provider to protect your corporate assets Windows 8 Update: Steve Ballmer's 80-inch Windows 8 tablet WEBCAST: BMC Software Unlock the Value of Cloud Computing with Workload Automation Learn how to get the most from your cloud investment in our on-demand webinar from BMC and InformationWeek. You'll hear how integrating the cloud into your production workload brings critical business benefits. Learn More! CIOs Don't Need to Be Business Leaders Given the complexity of today's applications, it's folly to suggest that the future role of the CIO is less technical and more businesslike, columnist Bernard Golden writes. If anything, it's the opposite -- the business side of the enterprise should embrace technology. Read More How to innovate and tighten your belt simultaneously CIOs face a common set of thorny challenges these days, namely the pressure to deliver innovations even as they seek to cut or hold down spending, according to an array of senior IT executives who spoke on Tuesday at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IT Roadmap Denver IT Roadmap Denver: New Sessions Including: Unified Communications and VOIP, Mobility Strategies, The New Enterprise Network in the Era of the Cloud, Risk Management, Applications Strategy, Reducing IT Cost and Increasing Efficiencies, Analyzing Your Customers for Business Intelligence, and more. So register now and get ready for an all new IT Roadmap in 2012: Click to continue Panel: Future CIOs will have careers blending non-tech roles with traditional IT duties Next-generation CIOs will have to consider how technology affects other corporate departments as well as handle traditional IT management functions, especially those accompanying mobile device management and greater data analysis, according to panelists who spoke at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Read More INSIDER IaaS: Renting on-demand technology Putting your faith in the cloud can be a risky endeavor. A survey from earlier this year showed that of 600 large companies, only 27% were using public cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Application Delivery Optimization Fueled by users who are hyper-sensitive to delays in application delivery, organizations are seeking solutions that can help them root out and eliminate delivery latency. Application Delivery Optimization promises to improve application performance in the data center and beyond. Learn More! Gartner: Don't trust cloud provider to protect your corporate assets When a family with a baby buys a new car, they don't buy a car seat from the vehicle manufacturer: There is specialized equipment to handle the family's most sensitive asset. John Pescatore, a Gartner vice president and security analyst, says cloud security can be thought of in a similar way: Users shouldn't rely on their cloud service provider's security features to protect their most critical data. Read More Windows 8 Update: Steve Ballmer's 80-inch Windows 8 tablet While it lacks the mobility usually associated with this class of device, there's an 80-inch tablet serving the head of Microsoft as a wallboard and as a substitute for other work-related gear. Read More
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