Mobile Trends

According to a 2012 survey, 74 percent of businesses now allow workers to use their own device in order to access corporate information. This “Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)” trend is giving rise to incredible freedom for workers in terms of accessing information through the cloud, but is also giving rise to security threats. As a mobile worker, you have to be on guard for malware, phishing scams and hackers while performing your day-to-day work.

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Passwords: Everyone hates them. They were a stopgap measure created in a more innocent age, when the number of connected systems on the Internet numbered in the hundreds rather than hundreds of millions. For the vast majority of web services and mobile apps, as few as 16 bytes stands between miscreants and your vital data. This is totally inadequate in the era of cloud-based rainbow table brute-forcing that is available to crooks for pennies or even for free.

Two weeks ago, Box announced their intentions to file for IPO. This comes on the heels of Google’s announcement that they will offer one terabyte (TB) of data for only $9.99 a month. Both announcements have had a chilling effect in Silicon Valley and beyond, because it could easily put smaller cloud storage players out of business. It probably will. From Dropbox to Microsoft, many are shaking in their e­boots. Cloud hosting has seemingly become a commodity, now. But has it, really? Each cloud hosting provider has some type of bell or whistle unique to their own user base. Box’s bold move will no doubt inspire other cloud players to move forward with their IPOs.