2009 January | Sekiur My Thoughts

From the monthly archives: January 2009

Nortel Files for Bankruptcy

By Jose Vicente Ortega On January 14, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Unfortunately Nortel was unable to do what it needed to do to stay in business and has filed for bankruptcy, as I noted in a post 4 months ago. Nortel Struggles Continue.

The century-old company, North America’s biggest maker of phone gear and worth about $250 billion at its peak in [...]

Continue Reading →

Sample Blackberry Enterprise Server Policy

By Jose Vicente Ortega On January 11, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The policy below provides an example of security measures that should be taken towards protecting a corporate network from the threats presented by mobile devices.

These configurations and options should be “taken with a grain of salt”; as a guideline to what features should be set to mitigate the risk of smart-phone being used as [...]

Continue Reading →

Locking Down The Blackberry Network

By Jose Vicente Ortega On January 11, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Early last year India threatened to discontinue Blackberry service if Research In Motion (RIM), the company behind the Blackberry did not allow the Indian Government to monitor the Blackberry network traffic raising serious security concerns. Here are a few articles from PCWorld, InfoWorld, and CNet.

Now president-elect Barack [...]

Continue Reading →