Mobile World Congress 2013, SPAIN: Zimperium, the mobile security start-up that won start-up of the year for innovation at Israel Mobile 2013 hosted by KPMG, Israel Export Office and Calcalist, has announced its latest Mobile Security Suite in Barcelona at MWC 2013
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“With the recent reports of attacks on Microsoft, Apple, Facebook and NY Times it further demonstrates that everyone is a target. Mobile devices have become a lucrative asset to hackers due to BYOD unmanaged security. MWC is an excellent opportunity to showcase our technology and demonstrate a comprehensive mobile protection solution to defend organizations from these types of targeted attacks through mobile devices” commented Zuk Avraham, Zimperium's founder and CEO.
zIPS, the world’s first on-device Mobile Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) protect organizations from a variety of cyber security threats such as spear-phishing, cyber espionage, Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) and worm-based threats on mobile. The solution provides real-time visibility for mobile devices, which is based on an innovative behavioural analysis engine.
‘Bring Your Own device’ (BYOD) in the workplace continues to rise, without a foreseeable change of direction in sight. It is estimated that 81 percent of employees now use at least one mobile device for their work-related tasks. “This trend exposes enterprises to a host of security risks which can’t be ignored, yet most organizations have not even begun to address these risks” continued Avraham.
Zimperium’s Mobile Security Suite is available for selected beta users. Organizations interested in joining our private-beta program can contact directly.
Monday, February 25, 2013
Etisalat joins M2M Alliance to tap global M2M market
SPAIN: The M2M Alliance has added the Middle East's largest operator, Etisalat, to its group of operator members looking to introduce a single worldwide SIM card via a web-based platform for M2M services.
Comprised of seven mobile operators – KPN in the Netherlands, Japan’s NTT DoCoMo, Rogers Communications in Canada, Singapore’s SingTel, Telefonica in Europe and Latin America, Australia’s Telstra, VimpelCom in Russia and now Middle Eastern operating group Etisalat, expanding the member base of the initiative is a welcome move to address some of the technology fragmentation that is to a degree hampering the roll-out of global M2M services.
The alliance will now need to work hard to use its single worldwide SIM to both educate the enterprise market on the potential uses of M2M, as well as to use it as a platform to differentiate from other operators’ M2M offerings.
Because the global M2M market is defined by partnerships and the combination of core competencies an operator can bring to its M2M technology, being able to offer a single SIM for M2M will be attractive to enterprises looking to deploy a single M2M application in different markets worldwide.
According to Informa Telecoms & Media research, at the end of 2Q12, there were 132 million active cellular M2M connections globally and this total is forecast to reach 217 million by end-4Q14, displaying a global CAGR of 23 percent.
Approximately 39 percent of all cellular M2M connections by 4Q14 will have been activated since 2Q12: the cellular M2M market is clearly growing steadily, but not as rapidly as some companies have projected.
It will be interesting to see how an alliance of operators with something approaching global reach – although the key markets of the US and China are still absent from its footprint – will be able to take market share from rivals with its single SIM approach in the growing M2M market. The M2M Alliance now needs to increase its number of operator members to expand its footprint and create a truly global M2M offering it can pitch to enterprises.
Comprised of seven mobile operators – KPN in the Netherlands, Japan’s NTT DoCoMo, Rogers Communications in Canada, Singapore’s SingTel, Telefonica in Europe and Latin America, Australia’s Telstra, VimpelCom in Russia and now Middle Eastern operating group Etisalat, expanding the member base of the initiative is a welcome move to address some of the technology fragmentation that is to a degree hampering the roll-out of global M2M services.
The alliance will now need to work hard to use its single worldwide SIM to both educate the enterprise market on the potential uses of M2M, as well as to use it as a platform to differentiate from other operators’ M2M offerings.
Because the global M2M market is defined by partnerships and the combination of core competencies an operator can bring to its M2M technology, being able to offer a single SIM for M2M will be attractive to enterprises looking to deploy a single M2M application in different markets worldwide.
According to Informa Telecoms & Media research, at the end of 2Q12, there were 132 million active cellular M2M connections globally and this total is forecast to reach 217 million by end-4Q14, displaying a global CAGR of 23 percent.
Approximately 39 percent of all cellular M2M connections by 4Q14 will have been activated since 2Q12: the cellular M2M market is clearly growing steadily, but not as rapidly as some companies have projected.
It will be interesting to see how an alliance of operators with something approaching global reach – although the key markets of the US and China are still absent from its footprint – will be able to take market share from rivals with its single SIM approach in the growing M2M market. The M2M Alliance now needs to increase its number of operator members to expand its footprint and create a truly global M2M offering it can pitch to enterprises.
Centrify and Samsung to deliver industry’s first comprehensive, enterprise-ready mobile solution for work and personal use
SPAIN & USA: Centrify Corp. the leader in Unified Identity Services across data center, cloud and mobile, announced that Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd has selected Centrify to provide key enabling technology for Samsung’s next generation mobile enterprise solution - Samsung KNOX.
Announced today by Samsung, Samsung KNOX is the industry’s most comprehensive mobile solution for work and play that lets consumers easily separate their work and personal lives on their mobile devices, while giving enterprises enhanced security at all levels of the Android platform.
Samsung KNOX is a new Android-based solution designed from the ground up with security in mind to address advanced security requirements for the Android Platform. KNOX retains full compatibility with Android and the Google ecosystem while engineering fundamental security and management enhancements, including container technology that with one-click securely separates personal data on the device from corporate data and apps.
Through this OEM software license and marketing agreement, Centrify will enable multi-application SSO for mobile and web apps inside the Samsung KNOX container, allowing customers to use their existing infrastructure — Microsoft Active Directory (AD) — to manage KNOX containers, Samsung devices and role-based access to mobile applications centrally and easily.
The Centrify and Samsung partnership also includes re-sale of Centrify premium mobile and SaaS Single Sign-on offerings via Samsung partners, as well as joint marketing to Samsung customers and partners.
The Centrify technology Samsung is embedding into its KNOX solution is also generally available as part of Centrify’s latest Cloud Services release, Centrify for Mobile 2013, also announced today.
“Samsung selected Centrify because they are experts in integrating Active Directory with data center, cloud and mobile resources, and also because they uniquely deliver both mobile authentication and AD-based policy management of virtual containers in a single solution,” said Dr. Injong Rhee, senior VP, B2B R&D at Samsung Electronics. “The end result of this partnership between Samsung and Centrify is that consumers not only get the right mobile solution for work and play and the productivity gains of having one-click sign-on to their enterprise apps, but enterprise IT also leverages existing tools and skill sets to securely manage users’ work containers while knowing there is a clean separation of enterprise and personal data.”
As part of this OEM agreement, Centrify will help Samsung power the growth of an easy-to-use, developer kit and ISV app ecosystem for Android in the enterprise through the licensing of its Mobile Authentication Services (MAS) Software Development Kit (SDK) into the Samsung for Enterprise (SAFE) SDK Framework. This enables any Android app developer to use this SAFE mobile client SDK within their rich native mobile app to enable “Zero Sign-On” from devices running KNOX to their cloud-based applications.
This Zero Sign-On goes beyond traditional SSO for devices enrolled in the Centrify Cloud Service, by allowing users one-click sign-on to enterprise apps without having to enter a username and password. ISVs such as Box, Catch, and Onvelop are part of a growing list of ecosystem partners which are in various stages of enhancing their apps using the Centrify MAS SDK to support Zero Sign-On inside Samsung KNOX containers.
Announced today by Samsung, Samsung KNOX is the industry’s most comprehensive mobile solution for work and play that lets consumers easily separate their work and personal lives on their mobile devices, while giving enterprises enhanced security at all levels of the Android platform.
Samsung KNOX is a new Android-based solution designed from the ground up with security in mind to address advanced security requirements for the Android Platform. KNOX retains full compatibility with Android and the Google ecosystem while engineering fundamental security and management enhancements, including container technology that with one-click securely separates personal data on the device from corporate data and apps.
Through this OEM software license and marketing agreement, Centrify will enable multi-application SSO for mobile and web apps inside the Samsung KNOX container, allowing customers to use their existing infrastructure — Microsoft Active Directory (AD) — to manage KNOX containers, Samsung devices and role-based access to mobile applications centrally and easily.
The Centrify and Samsung partnership also includes re-sale of Centrify premium mobile and SaaS Single Sign-on offerings via Samsung partners, as well as joint marketing to Samsung customers and partners.
The Centrify technology Samsung is embedding into its KNOX solution is also generally available as part of Centrify’s latest Cloud Services release, Centrify for Mobile 2013, also announced today.
“Samsung selected Centrify because they are experts in integrating Active Directory with data center, cloud and mobile resources, and also because they uniquely deliver both mobile authentication and AD-based policy management of virtual containers in a single solution,” said Dr. Injong Rhee, senior VP, B2B R&D at Samsung Electronics. “The end result of this partnership between Samsung and Centrify is that consumers not only get the right mobile solution for work and play and the productivity gains of having one-click sign-on to their enterprise apps, but enterprise IT also leverages existing tools and skill sets to securely manage users’ work containers while knowing there is a clean separation of enterprise and personal data.”
As part of this OEM agreement, Centrify will help Samsung power the growth of an easy-to-use, developer kit and ISV app ecosystem for Android in the enterprise through the licensing of its Mobile Authentication Services (MAS) Software Development Kit (SDK) into the Samsung for Enterprise (SAFE) SDK Framework. This enables any Android app developer to use this SAFE mobile client SDK within their rich native mobile app to enable “Zero Sign-On” from devices running KNOX to their cloud-based applications.
This Zero Sign-On goes beyond traditional SSO for devices enrolled in the Centrify Cloud Service, by allowing users one-click sign-on to enterprise apps without having to enter a username and password. ISVs such as Box, Catch, and Onvelop are part of a growing list of ecosystem partners which are in various stages of enhancing their apps using the Centrify MAS SDK to support Zero Sign-On inside Samsung KNOX containers.
Samsung hones enterprise mobility focus with KNOX launch
SPAIN: Samsung unveiled the next phase of its program to make its Android smart devices fit for enterprise deployment at MWC 2013 with the announcement of KNOX.
Tony Cripps, devices and platforms analyst at Ovum commented: “KNOX provides an end-to-end package of security services that reach from the hardware to the application layer. These include a secure “application container”, which is similar to BlackBerry’s Balance, plus support for over 300 IT policies and more than 700 mobile device management application programming interfaces.
“KNOX demonstrates Samsung’s growing appreciation of the security and management needs of enterprise users and the value of integrating such features into its Android smart devices out of the box.
"This could be an important differentiator over most of Samsung’s Android device rivals, for which bring-your-own-device and other enterprise mobility initiatives largely take a back seat. However, the functionality will only extended to “selected” Galaxy devices from 2Q13.
“The announcement also positions Samsung well to exploit any softening in demand among enterprises and “prosumers” for BlackBerry devices, which have long provided the benchmark for enterprise smart devices. It can also take advantage of any reluctance by businesses to deploy applications and data on Apple iOS devices.”
Tony Cripps, devices and platforms analyst at Ovum commented: “KNOX provides an end-to-end package of security services that reach from the hardware to the application layer. These include a secure “application container”, which is similar to BlackBerry’s Balance, plus support for over 300 IT policies and more than 700 mobile device management application programming interfaces.
“KNOX demonstrates Samsung’s growing appreciation of the security and management needs of enterprise users and the value of integrating such features into its Android smart devices out of the box.
"This could be an important differentiator over most of Samsung’s Android device rivals, for which bring-your-own-device and other enterprise mobility initiatives largely take a back seat. However, the functionality will only extended to “selected” Galaxy devices from 2Q13.
“The announcement also positions Samsung well to exploit any softening in demand among enterprises and “prosumers” for BlackBerry devices, which have long provided the benchmark for enterprise smart devices. It can also take advantage of any reluctance by businesses to deploy applications and data on Apple iOS devices.”
Orange and Morpho join forces to deliver mobile access to patient records
SPAIN: Orange and mobile security specialist Morpho have announced that a large French hospital will trial their identity authentication solution.
Charlie Davies, healthcare life sciences analyst at Ovum commented: "Orange and mobile security specialist Morpho have announced that a large French hospital will trial their identity authentication solution. The trial demonstrates how telcos and partners are applying authentication tools and lessons learned from mobile banking to healthcare.
"The solution makes use of the mobile operator’s most valuable asset – the SIM card – and dual-factor authentication (doctors are required to enter their phone number and then an ID number to gain access to patient files).
"As the use of smartphones and tablets by healthcare professionals increases, we expect more solutions centered on mobile access to sensitive data to be launched, with telcos partnering with platform/application specialists.
"The fact that Orange is leading the integration is no surprise. It follows the now clearly defined roadmap of tier-1 telcos leveraging their market position to push their enterprise services business in their domestic markets. If only mass market adoption of this kind of service in healthcare had as smooth a development roadmap as mobile banking."
Charlie Davies, healthcare life sciences analyst at Ovum commented: "Orange and mobile security specialist Morpho have announced that a large French hospital will trial their identity authentication solution. The trial demonstrates how telcos and partners are applying authentication tools and lessons learned from mobile banking to healthcare.
"The solution makes use of the mobile operator’s most valuable asset – the SIM card – and dual-factor authentication (doctors are required to enter their phone number and then an ID number to gain access to patient files).
"As the use of smartphones and tablets by healthcare professionals increases, we expect more solutions centered on mobile access to sensitive data to be launched, with telcos partnering with platform/application specialists.
"The fact that Orange is leading the integration is no surprise. It follows the now clearly defined roadmap of tier-1 telcos leveraging their market position to push their enterprise services business in their domestic markets. If only mass market adoption of this kind of service in healthcare had as smooth a development roadmap as mobile banking."
Qualcomm extending AllJoyn software framework to drive interoperability for Internet of Everything
SPAIN: Qualcomm Inc. announced that its subsidiary, Qualcomm Innovation Center Inc. (QuIC), will extend the AllJoyn software development project with new core interoperable services to enable richer experiences for consumers. These new services will be available on devices with different operating systems and from different vendors.
The AllJoyn framework will include new services designed to address fundamental use cases to enable a truly useful Internet of Everything. Today, the AllJoyn SDK provides the core building blocks developers need to address discoverability, connectivity, security and management of dynamic, ad-hoc networks between nearby devices.
With the addition of these planned AllJoyn services, manufacturers and developers will be able to utilize higher-level components that implement some of the most common use cases. QuIC expects to release fully functional versions of these core services under an open source license on AllJoyn.org and such services will include:
Onboarding – a 'headless' or other simpler smart device can easily be configured via an intermediary, such as a smartphone application, for use onto a user's personal network.
Notifications – enabling a standard way for devices to broadcast and receive text, image and multimedia notifications.
Audio Streaming – facilitating an interoperable, open, wireless audio streaming protocol that allows users to stream their music across products from any manufacturer.
Control – allowing for devices to export their control interfaces, including rich graphical elements associated with them.
These new core services will be upstreamed into the AllJoyn open source project by May 2013. It is expected that many Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. platforms and products will include integrated support for these services as well.
"A useful Internet of Everything will emerge when connected products, applications and consumer services can interact via a common communications protocol," said Rob Chandhok, president of QuIC.
"We are driving toward this vision by adding new core services intended for very broad application but deliberately designed to be simple and basic so that they can be adapted to as-yet unforeseen future requirements. The opportunities for proximal networking in the home and automotive environments are a clear place to start; over time, and with the engagement of the open source community and manufacturers, we hope to extend AllJoyn such that any product with a processor can be made more useful to individuals and enterprises through simple connection and interaction with other devices, regardless of vendor or operating system."
The AllJoyn framework will include new services designed to address fundamental use cases to enable a truly useful Internet of Everything. Today, the AllJoyn SDK provides the core building blocks developers need to address discoverability, connectivity, security and management of dynamic, ad-hoc networks between nearby devices.
With the addition of these planned AllJoyn services, manufacturers and developers will be able to utilize higher-level components that implement some of the most common use cases. QuIC expects to release fully functional versions of these core services under an open source license on AllJoyn.org and such services will include:
Onboarding – a 'headless' or other simpler smart device can easily be configured via an intermediary, such as a smartphone application, for use onto a user's personal network.
Notifications – enabling a standard way for devices to broadcast and receive text, image and multimedia notifications.
Audio Streaming – facilitating an interoperable, open, wireless audio streaming protocol that allows users to stream their music across products from any manufacturer.
Control – allowing for devices to export their control interfaces, including rich graphical elements associated with them.
These new core services will be upstreamed into the AllJoyn open source project by May 2013. It is expected that many Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. platforms and products will include integrated support for these services as well.
"A useful Internet of Everything will emerge when connected products, applications and consumer services can interact via a common communications protocol," said Rob Chandhok, president of QuIC.
"We are driving toward this vision by adding new core services intended for very broad application but deliberately designed to be simple and basic so that they can be adapted to as-yet unforeseen future requirements. The opportunities for proximal networking in the home and automotive environments are a clear place to start; over time, and with the engagement of the open source community and manufacturers, we hope to extend AllJoyn such that any product with a processor can be made more useful to individuals and enterprises through simple connection and interaction with other devices, regardless of vendor or operating system."
TeamSpirit Mobile 4.0 engine brings voice and video over IP to RCS
MWC 2013, SPAIN: SPIRIT DSP, the world's #1 voice and video over IP engines provider serving more than 1 billion users in 100+ countries, announced a new version of its VVoIP software SDK (Software Development Kit), TeamSpirit Voice&Video Engine Mobile 4.0, that provides interactive mobile HD voice and video calls in RCS (Rich Communication Suite).
TeamSpirit Voice&Video Engine Mobile 4.0 is compliant with the RCS 5.1 specification, the last version of the GSMA-driven standard for carriers' IP services, which allows telcos together with developers to quickly bring high-quality IMS voice and video calling functionality to their RCS-compliant services, applications and devices. The new engine is also fully compatible with standard SIP, IMS and VoLTE specifications.
TeamSpirit Voice&Video Engine, encompassing the new RCS communication standard, provides telcos with an easy-to-use SDK to create rich HD voice and video applications and bring them to market in record time, allowing them to remain more competitive and keep subscribers satisfied by responding more rapidly to their expectations for high quality voice and video calling on LTE networks.
SPIRIT customers, such as BroadSoft, Huawei, KT, LG U+, Maaii and Reliance have developed or are now developing RCS applications and services using TeamSpirit Voice&Video Engines.
An approved by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) standard, the RCS 5.1 specification aims to provide fully interoperable and standards-based rich functionality to end users, such as IM, presence, sharing, as well as voice and video over IP calls.
The specification allows telecom operators to effectively compete with innovative and agile OTT (Over-The-Top) service providers, retain and even expand their subscriber base with high-quality, feature-rich, standards-based mobile applications available across a wide set of handsets and mobile networks.
"It is not only cross-platform messaging services that are killing telcos SMS traffic. Without HD voice and video over IP as a part of carriers’ RCS offering, irreparable loss of voice revenues is the challenge telcos have to deal with right now”, said SPIRIT's chairman, Andrew Sviridenko.
“TeamSpirit Voice&Video Engine Mobile has been recognized by carriers around the world as an effective way to remain more competitive with OTT, bring richer RCS calls to their subscribers, enhance the value of LTE networks and keep their subscribers connected."
TeamSpirit Voice&Video Engine Mobile 4.0 is compliant with the RCS 5.1 specification, the last version of the GSMA-driven standard for carriers' IP services, which allows telcos together with developers to quickly bring high-quality IMS voice and video calling functionality to their RCS-compliant services, applications and devices. The new engine is also fully compatible with standard SIP, IMS and VoLTE specifications.
TeamSpirit Voice&Video Engine, encompassing the new RCS communication standard, provides telcos with an easy-to-use SDK to create rich HD voice and video applications and bring them to market in record time, allowing them to remain more competitive and keep subscribers satisfied by responding more rapidly to their expectations for high quality voice and video calling on LTE networks.
SPIRIT customers, such as BroadSoft, Huawei, KT, LG U+, Maaii and Reliance have developed or are now developing RCS applications and services using TeamSpirit Voice&Video Engines.
An approved by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) standard, the RCS 5.1 specification aims to provide fully interoperable and standards-based rich functionality to end users, such as IM, presence, sharing, as well as voice and video over IP calls.
The specification allows telecom operators to effectively compete with innovative and agile OTT (Over-The-Top) service providers, retain and even expand their subscriber base with high-quality, feature-rich, standards-based mobile applications available across a wide set of handsets and mobile networks.
"It is not only cross-platform messaging services that are killing telcos SMS traffic. Without HD voice and video over IP as a part of carriers’ RCS offering, irreparable loss of voice revenues is the challenge telcos have to deal with right now”, said SPIRIT's chairman, Andrew Sviridenko.
“TeamSpirit Voice&Video Engine Mobile has been recognized by carriers around the world as an effective way to remain more competitive with OTT, bring richer RCS calls to their subscribers, enhance the value of LTE networks and keep their subscribers connected."
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