Unchain your mobile users and just protect the data [Video]

IT and the security industry are both focused on dubious protection plans. This proposed standard shows a better way

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PC sales continue to decline, mobile sales continue to climb, people work at home, and the notion of strict work/life separation for equipment is on its way out for many information workers. Yet most IT organizations and security vendors insist on applying legacy thinking for information security that simply cannot work in the modern world of heterogeneous, anywhere, and mixed personal/business computing. They keep trying to build mobile prisons, extending perimeter defenses across the digital world or creating satellite fortresses on every device. No one willingly enters a prison, and the gulag and straitjacket approaches favored by IT and security vendors simply will be bypassed by business users, who’ve been doing so for years on the desktop.

It’s time to stop the madness and protect what really matters: the information that …