LONDON: New research by LANDesk Software reveals that while employee use of smart mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets for work is widespread, only half of IT service desk managers can manage the use of company owned devices, and this falls to around 20% when personal devices are considered.
Inaugural awards for enterprise tech startups offer prizes worth thousands of dollars and exclusive VC/CTO mentoring to Emerging Markets Trailblazers
LONDON, UK and SANTA CLARA, CA: The inaugural Tech Trailblazers Awards announces TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) Silicon Valley as its latest industry supporters and joins the likes of global industry associations such as the Cloud Security Alliance, Storage networking Industry Association and MIT/Stanford Venture Labs. The awards invite tech startups from emerging markets such as the BRICS region to enter the Emerging Markets Trailblazers category. Eligible entrants already entering any other categories may also enter the emerging markets category free of charge – hence increasing their chances of winning part of the $1 million dollar prize fund equivalent.
Following the recent high profile cases of senior fraud and online security managers being caught up with fraudulent activity, UKFraud’s Special Interest Group (SIG) for Corporate Fraud Prevention has drawn up a new set of benchmarks which will help organisations identify the signs that something is awry. The SIG also outlines the most effective strategies for countering these risks.
President President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan of Nigeria
Failure at home to tackle the menace of Boko Haram may have led to a new thinking on the part of the Nigerian Government to enlist international counter-terror, security and defence experts in her war against terror, also against the backdrop of increasing defence expenditure to meet the growing terror threat, estimated to the tune of US$2.1 billion this year and expected to grow at 22% a year to reach US$4.76 billion by 2016.
To expose official corruption in Nigeria, re-orientate the psyche of Nigerians and usher in the Nigerian renaissance
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