Darryl Miles, IT guy from Down Under
Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a well know IT security standard for organisations that handle credit card data. The PCI standard is actually mandated by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council, and the potential fines for non compliance and ramifications for a business if they hacked can be significant. For example in 2013 Target …
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With the release of iOS9 just around the corner, is your organisation ready? Your staff will be eager to upgrade to the latest capabilities once the final release is made available. No longer can you ask your staff not to upgrade their iOS device, they will be doing it ! Since June, IBM has offered …
IBM BigFix (Endpoint Manager) has released a new Software Usage Analysis (SUA) module. This release includes a number of new capabilities, specifically SQL support. BigFix Inventory (or SUA) also provides IBM sub-capacity measurement capability. IBM has provided a number of installation and administration guides here. In the following article, I’ll step you through the key …
The IT industry loves buzzwords and acronyms. We we have RAM, SOA, EMM, VM, AJAX, HTTP... luckily we have Glossary's available to help us decode what we're talking about! I suggest there is another acronym that is growing in popularity, UEM or Unified Endpoint Management. In the past, organisations ran "traditional" server management tools, which extended to …
IBM has released a new extender for IBM Endpoint Manager (IEM) to MaaS360. The extender (or connector) allows MaaS360 mobile device information to be accessible within IEM alongside PC, Mac and Server endpoints. Hence the Unified Reporting capability. The setup is relatively straightforward and the development team have created some excellent documentation here. With some …
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IBM BigFix can not only provide software distribution but also Operating System Deployment (or OSD). OSD includes the ability to upgrade operating systems (such as Windows XP to Windows 10) but also perform bare metal installations. I've recorded two edited video's of OSD in action for an upgrade and bare-metal installation. OSD is a feature of IEM's …
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MaaS360's Secure Productivity Suite (SPS) or secure container is available on iOS, Android and now Windows Phone. Clients have been particularly interested in MaaS360's secure container for Windows Phone. The different mobile experience and something different is quite a discussion point in live demonstrations. Organisations realise that Windows Phone will be a viable third force …
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MaaS360 is a multi-tenant SaaS based Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) solution. It not only manages mobile devices (iOS, Android, Windows etc) but also your traditional Windows and Apple Macs (OS X) too. To provide visibility of a companies internal resources such as Active Directory, Exchange, Domino or Blackberry in a secure manner to MaaS360, Fiberlink …
IBM BigFix is popular with Managed Service Providers (MSPs) for it's ability to manage hundreds of thousands of endpoints via a single multi-tennant architecture. BigFix provides MSP's the flexibility for either centralised or delegated administration models. Overall Architecture Bigfix is typically installed in a centralised architecture as show below. A single Bigfix server is installed at the …
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It was recently reported that a Microsoft Windows and Office vulnerability was already being targeted by criminals. If you search on Google for keywords such a Windows and zero day exploit, it's interesting to summarise the respective web pages mentions: Windows - Approximately 7 Million web pages Mac - Approximately 500K web pages Linux - Approximately …
