Areas of expertise: Val spearheads Fiberlink’s voice of the customer initiatives, ensuring client satisfaction one product enhancement at a time. When Fortune 1000 clients struggle with the best ways to manage programs like Bring Your Own Device or any first steps into enterprise mobility, Val is at the ready to ensure a smooth transition to a secure mobile device management environment.
Latest Project: Working on a free tool that will let IT administrators audit the devices calling to ActiveSynch.
The consumerization of IT continues to intensify, with several recent forecasts indicating that a growing majority of companies in the United States and abroad are now allowing employees to use their smartphones and tablets for work functions. However, many companies have thus far failed to create effective policies to protect data and networks in the age of bring your own device (BYOD).
As identity theft and data breaches continue to increase in prevalence, companies have largely focused on strengthening bring your own device (BYOD) security... Read more >
Though many enterprises and public sector organizations have already implemented mobile device management (MDM) solutions, a majority have yet to optimize br... Read more >
In recent years, small businesses have become the biggest targets of cyber criminals, especially as these firms often don't have the resources to develop eff... Read more >
Though enterprise decision makers in virtually every industry have probably heard about bring your own device (BYOD), some might not yet understand why the t... Read more >
The best practices of securing mobile devices continue to shift rapidly, as vulnerabilities and threats have proliferated aggressively in recent years. As mo... Read more >
As enterprises continue to work to develop the most effective bring your own device (BYOD) strategies, many have struggled to walk the line between control a... Read more >
The consumerization of IT continues to intensify, forcing many businesses to begin to sculpt bring your own device (BYOD) strategies and implement the neces... Read more >
Enterprise mobility continues to be one of the highest priorities of corporate executives and public sector officials today, especially as bring your own dev... Read more >
In recent years, bring your own device (BYOD) has been one of the most widespread and revolutionary trends in enterprise IT. By allowing employees to use per... Read more >
Enterprise mobility continues to experience more widespread growth in the United States and abroad, though many companies are failing to adequately secure pe... Read more >
The increasing popularity of bring your own device (BYOD) has led to a major shift in enterprise operations, as the trend brings with it a variety of product... Read more >
As the bring your own device (BYOD) trend continues to intensify and spread to new industries, corporate decision makers need to ensure that their companies... Read more >
Bring your own device (BYOD) has matured from the mobility strategy of a few to a widespread initiative that is popular in public and private sectors around ... Read more >
Organizations that operate in heavily regulated industries have been traditionally slow to adopt new technology, as the potential security implications need ... Read more >
Many enterprises have viewed the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend as a direct threat to corporate data and networks. However, this is only true when employ... Read more >
As employees continue to bring a wider variety of devices and applications into the workplace, businesses have undertaken rapid changes to adjust. Part of th... Read more >
Mobile device management (MDM) and mobile device security solutions are beginning to experience healthy adoption rates among enterprises that are launching m... Read more >
Experts believe that the bring your own device (BYOD) trend will continue to intensify in the coming months and years, as more businesses begin to launch ent... Read more >
Mobile application management (MAM) and mobile device management (MDM) are increasingly important components of any enterprise mobility strategy. As more bus... Read more >
As the New Year gets underway and more professionals return to work from holiday vacations, executives and IT personnel are scrambling to put effective mana... Read more >
Recent reports have illustrated just how dangerous most IT professionals and corporate executives view bring your own device (BYOD) and enterprise mobility a... Read more >
Though the enterprise landscape has largely accepted mobility as a viable and important component of operations, some businesses have been slow to begin the ... Read more >
The rise of enterprise mobility has put a lot of pressure on enterprise IT security, especially when considering the rapid spread of personal mobile devices ... Read more >
Bring your own device (BYOD) continues to become a more widespread trend, with small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) driving adoption rates. Along with cl... Read more >
While bring your own device (BYOD) has experienced widespread adoption in recent years, a new debate has surfaced regarding the best practices for deployment... Read more >
Though enterprise mobility has been a common topic in corporate planning throughout the past several years, security concerns have been among the biggest imp... Read more >
Technology continues to evolve at a rapid pace, yielding many benefits and challenges for almost every business owner. One of the hottest topics in recent mo... Read more >
Employees across different industries are joining the bring your own device (BYOD) trend, and many are reaping benefits because of it. A recent survey by Ci... Read more >
A recent SANS Institute survey indicated that company managers are starting to accept bring your own device (BYOD), and that executives are catching on to th... Read more >
Bring your own device (BYOD) initiatives are becoming the norm in the workforce, with a recent Kaspersky Lab survey finding that more than 70 percent of busi... Read more >
Android is the most widely used mobile operating system in the world, making it a popular target for hackers and cybercriminals. The Internet Crime Complaint... Read more >
Although employees continue to use mobile devices for work more frequently, recent data suggests security measures need to improve before this becomes a comm... Read more >
The bring your own device (BYOD) revolution has created a variety of new opportunities for enterprises around the world. Not only can BYOD reduce the cost of... Read more >
High-profile data breaches resulting from lost or stolen employee devices continue to hit the news, making it more clear that mobile device management (MDM) ... Read more >
The mobile environment often varies between organizations. One company might have a lot of employees loyal to Apple while another has a loyal Android followi... Read more >
Despite a large number of organizations expressing concern over bring-your-own-device (BYOD), many IT departments are yet to take significant steps to disc... Read more >
Science fiction movies have it easy. When characters need to get into a vault, they just slide their thumbs over a fingerprint scanner and a door opens. Inst... Read more >
Businesses looking to leverage mobility could benefit from taking a look at solutions with Android support. According to a recent TechCrunch article, Android... Read more >
The iPhone's upcoming iOS 6 Passbook feature—which allows users to manage electronic tickets, coupons and passes, all from one place—has generated a con... Read more >
The most publicized mobility threats are not always the most prevalent. While high-profile malware attacks raise awareness when it comes to intentionally mal... Read more >
Mobile devices represent a new territory for businesses to explore with their employees. As with any new territory, it will take time to adapt. The workforce... Read more >
Panelists at a mobile security discussion held on June 20 debated whether IT professionals should focus on the application layer or the physical layer when p... Read more >
One of the fundamental challenges for IT is to deliver business-critical applications to employees. The first step in determining a plan for application depl... Read more >
With the number of iPhone, Android and Windows Phone devices in the workplace increasing, enterprise mobile device security has become a hotter topic among... Read more >
The Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend has become more popular in the country over the past two years, with more employees getting their personal mobile devi... Read more >
Companies that have been skeptical about the cloud as a platform for mobile device management solutions might be interested in a recent study that showed clo... Read more >
The Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) movement has attracted a lot of attention recently, and workers aren't the only ones leveraging the power of mobile. Small... Read more >
Adoption of Bring Your Own Device is picking up steam at small businesses throughout the country and around the world.
According to a recently conducted Spic... Read more >
The Bring Your Own Device trend has sparked many discussions in the IT industry, which has felt the pressure to provide mobile device management solutions fo... Read more >
It's a question many employees find themselves asking these days: "Should I bring my own mobile device to work in order to make my workload easier?"
A decade... Read more >
Businesses are slowly moving away from using BlackBerry devices as much as they have in the past, which the bring your own device trend is being credited for... Read more >
With bring your own device programs taking off, Insurance & Technology recently described three secrets to the new trend that might make it easier for IT... Read more >
The U.S. military is known for keeping things classified and only releasing information on a need-to-know basis. This culture extends to mobile devices, whic... Read more >
Security on mobile devices is being improved, leading IT department to have greater confidence in mobile device management systems. This confidence is especi... Read more >
A recently released survey conducted a networking vendor that sells enterprise wireless LAN and edge access networking equipment revealed that most of the ho... Read more >
Bring your own device programs are becoming increasingly popular. Workers benefit from added flexibility and the convenience of having a single device for wo... Read more >
The "bring your own device" trend is beginning to expand across the country, as employees are using their personal mobile devices in the office to complete w... Read more >
Smartphones and tablets are becoming increasingly popular around the country as the "bring your own device" trend has taken off. Considering many workers are... Read more >
The Bring Your Own Device trend has placed a significant amount of pressure on IT departments that were less worried about mobile device management when empl... Read more >
Credit unions and other organizations in the financial services industry are increasingly embracing bring-your-own-device policies in an effort to improve em... Read more >
Businesses are overhauling many of their IT protocols in light of the increasing popularity of Bring Your Own Device initiatives.
A recent study commissioned... Read more >
A recently released study from a business technology solutions and managed services provider showed that IT administrators and business executives are embrac... Read more >
An IT security solutions company recently conducted a survey of 768 IT professionals in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany and Japan, which revealed ... Read more >
With the emergence of the "Bring Your Own Device" trend, mobile device management has been at the forefront of IT departments' concerns. IT pros will likely ... Read more >
The Department of Defense recently announced it will begin to distribute mobile devices to military officials and other employees, and the department is now ... Read more >
Given the emergence of new technology and companies trying to cut costs, businesses that once supplied mobile devices to employees to be used exclusively for... Read more >
Between smartphones and tablets, BYOD and corporate owned, 3G or LTE, organizations have many choices to make when it comes to enterprise mobility. However, ... Read more >
No industry appears to be beyond the reach of consumerization and enterprise mobility's bring-your-own-device trend, as a recent report from Information Mana... Read more >
A recent Network World was anything but subtle in predicting the impact enterprise mobility will have on IT departments as 2012 kicks into high gear. Accordi... Read more >
The bring-your-own-device enterprise mobility trend is one of those enterprise technology influences that moves fast, often far quicker than companies can ke... Read more >
Enterprise IT nonprofit ISACA recently announced that three major trends will shape companies in 2012, and two of them address enterprise mobility directly. ... Read more >
Joining others in trying to predict what's to come in 2012 in terms of enterprise technology, news provider CIOL recently released its list of areas that com... Read more >
The Ford Motor Company first began thinking about allowing employees to bring their own devices to work way back in the beginning of 2007, according by senio... Read more >
Joining many households that rely solely on mobile phones, it appears as though companies are also abandoning land-line and desktop telephones to instead foc... Read more >
Whether they are satisfying the demands of mobile professionals or taking advantage of cost benefits, many companies today either already support personally ... Read more >
There are a number of reasons why many companies have finally broken down and are now supporting personally owned smartphones and tablets under their mobile ... Read more >
Consumerization is growing in popularity, as more companies are allowing employees to bring their personally owned smartphones and tablets to work under a br... Read more >
When it comes to enterprise mobility, it's now safe to say mobile applications have become as important as smartphones and tablets to the productivity of emp... Read more >
There are many reasons why enterprise mobile users frequently elect to purchase and utilize an iPad. Among the several recently identified by PC World was th... Read more >
The tight grip that Research In Motion has held over the enterprise mobility market is clearly loosening, as more end-users are abandoning its BlackBerry lin... Read more >
The applications running on smartphones and tablets that provide professionals with anywhere, anytime access to enterprise email and data are quickly becomin... Read more >
A new report from market researcher Knowledge Networks has demonstrated that mobile users are increasingly relying on their tablets to remain connected longe... Read more >
The U.S. Department of Veterans affairs recently answered calls to provide its employees with the latest technology when it announced a deployment of about 1... Read more >
The popularity of smartphones can't be denied. Consumers and enterprise users alike have recognized the benefits of the devices' portability and computing fo... Read more >
The demand and system load presented by an influx of mobile devices is putting the squeeze on companies' wireless local area networks, according to a recent ... Read more >
More users of smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices will check their inboxes while on the go during the next several years, according to the latest r... Read more >
A new report from ABI Research has revealed that companies are migrating much of their enterprise communications systems to the cloud. It would appear that e... Read more >
The BlackBerry line of smartphones has been all but left for dead in the consumer market, but the same certainly isn't true of the brand's reputation for ent... Read more >
Many professionals prefer to utilize a laptop for on-the-go computing and business tasks, according to Computerworld, but tablets are making inroads at many ... Read more >
For Eric Loyd, president and chief technology officer of New York-based tech firm Bitnetix, an Apple iPad allows him to do just about anything. Using his tab... Read more >
As the technology matures, and the use of smartphones and tablets increases, many mobile professionals around the world are embracing videoconferencing while... Read more >
With mobile technologies becoming more business-savvy, organizations are beginning to not only tolerate, but actually use them more often in the workplace. A... Read more >
Mobile devices are becoming increasingly popular among individuals and businesses, and if their use continues growing at the current rate, there will be roug... Read more >
With the rise of tablets currently underway, chief information officers are either terrified of the new technology or they are embracing it. Either way, it a... Read more >
While consumerization has blurred the line between the two, there are still certain needs that companies look for that may differ from those of consumers whe... Read more >
Enterprise mobility is the next step for organizations to make on the technology ladder. With remote access, functional applications and the potential to red... Read more >
Mobile devices these days provide many applications and services for users to improve their social life or web-browsing capabilities. However, many of these ... Read more >
A new report from market research firm In-Stat highlighted several factors that are accelerating the sales and adoption of tablets.
More so than anything els... Read more >
Thanks to tablets, such as Apple's iPad and devices run on Google's Android, mobile professionals are becoming more productive and communicate better with ea... Read more >
Advances in the computing power of smartphones and tablets has landed mobile applications in the center of what makes enterprise mobility so popular around t... Read more >
Armed with smartphones and tablets, employees around the world are both working longer hours and realizing the benefits of increased productivity that comes ... Read more >
As businesses assess their current IT capabilities, many are trying to decide between equipping employees with smartphones or tablets. According to Channel I... Read more >
Even with all the cost concerns and data security headaches smartphones and tablets can create, companies must still embrace enterprise mobility or risk bein... Read more >
The rapid rise of Google's Android mobile operating system and the continued strength of Apple's iPhone have fueled an influx of connected devices that only ... Read more >
While it's true that enterprise mobility carries myriad benefits - from greater access to business data to increased productivity among a user base - compani... Read more >
Many companies, a recent CIOL report stated, remain unprepared for the influx of smartphones, tablets and mobile applications they will need to cope with dur... Read more >
More so than ever, IT departments are losing control of the computing environments at their companies, thanks, in part, to renewed focus on enterprise mobili... Read more >
With many having already deployed mobile technology - smartphones, tablets, mobile applications and the like - small- and medium-sized businesses are now loo... Read more >
Through the introduction of smartphones and tablets, companies around the world can expect an organizational transformation that will breed more productive e... Read more >
It's a misconception to assume that enterprise mobility is only good for large enterprises with teams of employees working remotely. According to a recent su... Read more >
Adopting mobile device management for the iPad may be a wise move for many companies, as it appears the tablet is taking over the enterprise mobility landsca... Read more >
In this session, Val will share the steps required to take advantage of MaaS360 Secure Productivity Suite for Dual Persona, enabling BYODers to securely access cor...
