Black-hats and white-hats alike descended once again on Las Vegas last week for their annual DEFCON convention. The self-described “largest underground hacking event in the world” is a unique forum to get insight and information on the latest hacking trends, security vulnerabilities and exploits that may directly affect your business.
Today is the day that many gadget junkies have been waiting for – Apple’s iPhone is finally going on sale at AT&T wireless stores around the country. Much has been written and reported about its cool features and it will be interesting to see if the fever pitch media hype leading-up to its release can live up to the expectations and real world demands of the common cell phone user.
For many companies currently supporting corporate mobile email through services such as RIM’s Blackberry BES, Microsoft Mobile ActiveSync or Good Technology from Motorola a far different question arises: How will they support the iPhone on their existing infrastructure and what possible security risks does the device pose in the corporate context?
I recently wrote about how Unified Communication is starting to become a reality and how voice mail is inadvertently being delivered more often via email. There is yet another technology piece to the puzzle that will make UC more attractive to the end user.
Many Blackberry users worldwide were seeking treatment for massive email withdrawal symptoms earlier this week, after RIM’s service was disrupted for hours between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning EST. During the outage, most users lost all email access, while reducing some users email delivery speed to a crawl.
Stefan Mehlhorn is the CEO of Permessa Corp. a Waltham, MA based company providing enterprise messaging management solutions and consulting services to many of the worlds largest corporations.
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