Securing the Enterprise Again. The multi-level approach is also shared by Mobile Active Defense (MAD), which hosted the 2011 Mobile Security Symposium at the RSA conference along with AT&T, Symantec, and several other companies. "We hosted this conference to address a few critical elements in mobile device security," said Winn Schwartau, MAD's chairman "including geo-location-based firewall and content filtering for mobile devices." (February 18, 2011)

 

Six enterprise security leaks you should plug now. "P2P networking should, as per policy, be completely blocked in every enterprise," says Winn Schwartau, CEO of The Security Awareness Company, a security training firm. "The P2P ports should be completely shut down at all perimeters and ideally at the company's endpoints. P2P programs can be stopped through white/black listings and filters on the enterprise servers." Click here to read the whole article, in Spanish, in Chinese, in Polish. (Oct 14, 2010)

 

Five Reasons IT Pros Need to Be Paranoid."Mobile devices are coming at us faster than any technology since the rock," says Winn Schwartau, chairman of the board for Mobile Application Development Partners and founder of InfoWarCon. "It's scaring the bejesus out of IT organizations that do not know how many rogue devices they have connected to their network or how badly they are out of compliance. They're scared out of their minds about this." Read the whole article here. (Aug 17, 2010)

 

Infowar Expert Rings Alarms About Security Vulnerabilities of Smartphones. In less than 10 years, there could be as many as 20 billion smartphones and tablet devices in use around the world. “These things are cool. But what about the bad guys?” asks infowar guru Winn Schwartau. (April 4, 2011)