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05-24-2012, 09:55 AM
The company makes mandatory to turn off Siri while at work mandatory
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IBM is very concerned and conservative about security and its last policy includes the de-activation of Siri in all its employees iPhones.
Bad luck for the workers of IBM, specially if they have an iPhone 4S and rely on Siri day-by-day.
Now, the computer giant has forbidden the use of Siri and several other Apps due to security concerns.
According to the interview of Technologyreview to IBM's chief information officer Jeanette Horan:
Horan isn't only trying to educate IBM workers about computer security. She's also enforcing better security. Before an employee's own device can be used to access IBM networks, the IT department configures it so that its memory can be erased remotely if it is lost or stolen. The IT crew also disables public file-transfer programs like Apple's iCloud; instead, employees use an IBM-hosted version called MyMobileHub. IBM even turns off Siri, the voice-activated personal assistant, on employees' iPhones. The company worries that the spoken queries might be stored somewhere.
"We're just extraordinarily conservative," Horan says. "It's the nature of our business."
NEWS SOURCE: Business Topic #40324 (via) TechnologyReview (http://www.technologyreview.com/business/40324/)
Our thanks to 'Kaos2K' for this news item!
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IBM is very concerned and conservative about security and its last policy includes the de-activation of Siri in all its employees iPhones.
Bad luck for the workers of IBM, specially if they have an iPhone 4S and rely on Siri day-by-day.
Now, the computer giant has forbidden the use of Siri and several other Apps due to security concerns.
According to the interview of Technologyreview to IBM's chief information officer Jeanette Horan:
Horan isn't only trying to educate IBM workers about computer security. She's also enforcing better security. Before an employee's own device can be used to access IBM networks, the IT department configures it so that its memory can be erased remotely if it is lost or stolen. The IT crew also disables public file-transfer programs like Apple's iCloud; instead, employees use an IBM-hosted version called MyMobileHub. IBM even turns off Siri, the voice-activated personal assistant, on employees' iPhones. The company worries that the spoken queries might be stored somewhere.
"We're just extraordinarily conservative," Horan says. "It's the nature of our business."
NEWS SOURCE: Business Topic #40324 (via) TechnologyReview (http://www.technologyreview.com/business/40324/)
Our thanks to 'Kaos2K' for this news item!