From: FCW
By John Moore
Agencies face a delicate balancing act when it comes to providing mobile security.
On the one hand, IT departments seek to extend endpoint security to a growing population of mobile devices. It’s easy to see why: Smartphones can go missing along with agency data, and mobile devices in general can introduce malware to enterprise networks. On the other hand, employees want the ease of use of consumer technology, and agency managers covet the potential productivity boost.
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- Security intelligence. Security information and event management (SIEM) systems rank among the leading technologies in what Larry Ponemon, chairman and founder of the Ponemon Institute, describes as security intelligence solutions.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology, meanwhile, envisions integrating mobile device monitoring with enterprise SIEM tools. Bill Fisher, an information security engineer at NIST’s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, said SIEM solutions often function as dashboards for security analysts. Adding mobile devices to SIEM would let enterprises operate a single pane of glass for situational awareness.
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