M2M: the Multinational is going shopping in Brazil

In November, according to Anatel, the assets of M2M terminals were 8,175,309 million, a significant increase over 2013. And the market is mobilized. In Brazil, mergers and acquisitions are a reality. The Wyless, multinational company, bought 65% stake in Brazilian TM Year, M2M pioneer in the country, with the investment of approximately $ 7 million, reversed in infrastructure, human resources and technology.

There are 13 years in this market, the TM Data operates a managed network that connects the four mobile operators in Brazil, Claro, OI, TIM and Vivo customers. Operates through various business sectors such as automotive, infrastructure, security, medical and financial services. According to the CEO of TM Data, Sérgio Souza, companies are accustomed with the service provided directly by operators. With that suffer the lack of an offer that suits the logistical demands, technical customizations, differentiated service, special business plans, advanced management, incentive and innovation.

Renamed Wyless TM Date Brazil, the company has bold plans and wants of the country, expand its presence in Latin America. "Alternative sales channels spread all over the country will be available, plus new options for financing equipment to meet the huge existing demand," says the CEO of TM Data.

The investment will be the first major deployment of Porthos system, the most advanced management platform and awarded worldwide, able to ensure the continuity and management of M2M solutions. The investments planned for 2014 are around $ 1.5 million in retention and training of new talents and still projects the opening of new offices in Latin America and Rio de Janeiro. "Brazil is one of the largest growth opportunities in M2M in relation to the world market, and one of the greatest challenges of the BRIC group." Concludes Dan McDuffie, CEO of Wyless.  

High-risk applications for Android will reach 3 million

By publicizing the annual report forecasts safety - "Mixing Barriers: Forecast Trend Micro security for 2014 onwards" - the company's information security indicates that a large data breach will occur each month and advanced attacks of banking on mobile devices and targeted attacks have accelerated pace. Threats to critical infrastructure and security challenges derived from the Internet of Things and the Deep Web are also highlights.

The forecasts for 2014 in the area of Information Security also highlight:

• Malicious applications and high risk for Android will reach 3 million;  
• Banking through mobile devices will be compromised by increased attacks via an intermediary, making verification inadequate in two steps;
• Cybercriminals increasingly use methods of targeted attacks, such as the research of open source and highly personalized spear phishing;  
• Mobile devices are increasingly targeted by advanced threats, including clickjacking and "watering hole" attacks;  
• Lack of support for popular software such as Java 6 and Windows XP will expose millions of PCs to attack;
• The public trust, compromised by the revelations monitoring ordered by the United States will result in a variety of efforts to restore privacy;
• The Deep Web will continue to explore the lack of capacity of law enforcement to deal with the spread of cybercrime.

The report also focuses on the rise of the Internet of Things, which promises to be the notorious watershed related to personal technology. With increased being delivered by utilitarian and usable technology as watches and sunglasses, the possibility of cyber crime on a large scale deriving from identity theft, reality is a very real possibility as technology continues its proliferation. 

Mobile security: Lack of awareness of the employee raises red flag

The report The Impact of Mobile Devices for Information Security, published by Check Point, reveals that 71% of companies believe that the adoption of mobile devices has boosted the number of security incidents, citing among his biggest concerns the loss of information and privacy sensitive, stored on devices for employees, including corporate e-mail (79%), customer data (47%) and login information network (38%).The survey also shows that smartphones and tablets are increasingly present in the corporate environment which causes a new area of ​​focus for IT managers. That's because they have to create security policies for thousands of devices and operating systems involved, and at the same time, protect the company against data loss and the increasing presence of mobile threats.The study found that Check Point:• Increased number of connections to corporate networks via mobile devices - Approximately 94% of companies surveyed reported an increase in the number of personal mobile devices connected to the corporate network, with 78% of respondents noting a 100% growth over the past two years.• Mobile devices and their most common security risks - Apple (30%) and Blackberry (29%) were the most common types of mobile devices connecting to corporate networks, followed by Android (21%). Almost half of respondents (43%) also believes that Android devices pose the greatest risk mobile security.• The employee's behavior affects the safety of mobile data - Most companies believe that the greatest impact on mobile data security is the lack of awareness of safety among employees - followed by the mobile navigation (61%), connectivity Wi-Fi security (59%), lost or stolen devices (58%) and download malicious mobile application (57%).• Many mobile devices storing sensitive customer data and company - personal and corporate devices typically store and access a wealth of information, including e-mails (79%), customer data (47%) and login credentials (38 %) from the internal databases or business applications.

IBM goes shopping in the area of ​​enterprise mobility

IBM announced on Tuesday, 31/01, an agreement to acquire worklight, an Israeli company specializing in software development and applications for smartphones and tablets. The values ​​of the transaction were not disclosed.

With the acquisition, IBM intends to expand its service offering in the form of mobile applications, management services, security, and integration services for smartphones and tablets from individuals to enterprise systems companies, IBM said in a statement.

In a recent study conducted by IBM with more than 3,000 executives from information technology (IT) throughout the world, 75% said mobility solutions such as priority IT investments this year.

The worklight provides industrial mobile applications in different industries, including financial services, retail, technology, tourism and area hospitals. The company develops applications that let you create and format pages in HTML5 run on smartphones and tablets, reducing the time to adapt Web pages for access on mobile devices.