Etikett: byod

For decades cyber security professionals have been addressing the issues of employees bringing their own devices to work. Called BYOD for “Bring Your Own Device”, IT departments have dealt with employee phones, tablets, and laptops. When an employee brings a device to a workplace there are many potential issues. For instance, does that device have […]

We know back doors get built into systems because sooner or later they’re abused in ways that often grab our attention. Keep in mind that any “password recovery” system accomplishes something that would not be possible within a system that really protects confidentiality. There is a tradeoff between confidentiality and availability. The stronger the protection […]

Last month I wrote about some current cybersecurity concerns about satellite ground stations. That may seem rather exotic to many readers, but all of us rely on reasonably accurate weather predictions. Satellite cybersecurity problems would hurt all of us, but we can draw useful lessons from this episode. The U.S. Commerce Department’s Inspector General is […]

BYOD or Bring Your Own Device is popular with users because they can use familiar systems which they chose. It’s popular with management because it can reduce hardware expenses. Let the employees buy the equipment, they figure. But this reduction in capital cost can lead to an increase in operational cost when the largely uncontrolled […]

I had the great pleasure of watching someone else teach the Introduction to Security course a week ago. Steve Bibby – an excellent instructor from the UK – taught the course and I assisted him because we had a large number of online participants (Learning Tree courses can have both in-room and online participants in […]