InformationWeek recently released the findings from its 2012 Mobile Security Survey which examined the mobile security technology trends and strategies employed at over 300 organizations across North America. Of this group, 86% currently allow their employees to use personally-owned devices for business purposes or are in the process of adopting policies which allow this practice. With the rapidly growing popularity of this so-called BYOD trend, one might assume that IT departments across the country would be tightening up mobile device security policies to keep pace. Unfortunately, this does...

In last week's article, The Cloud Trifecta: Scalability, Cost and Efficiency, we looked at the top three winning reasons hedge funds are gravitating towards the cloud. In today’s article (again inspired by our Cloud Forum website), we will examine further why firms are outsourcing the IT management of their applications to third-party cloud providers and the questions you should be asking. As validation of this trend, leading application vendors including Advent, ConvergEx, Tradar and Ledgex Systems have introduced efforts to certify third-party hosting providers. Why Funds Are Moving...

Just last week, we talked about network security threats and the best practices your firm can employ to keep information safe. You probably think that your security efforts should be focused on the outside - on external risks. But the reality is that the biggest security threat to your firm could be the person sitting right next to you. It was mentioned by both eSentire’s Steve McGeown and Eze Castle’s Steve Schoener during our recent webinar that internal threats to security are just as likely to occur when it comes to cybercrime and security breaches. A recent Wall Street...