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John Walls: It is now more than ever important to have a device that's secure.
applications that are secure. If you're working in the enterprise
and with me to talk about that
from OpenPeak is David Barclay who is the executive vice president of strategy
business development. Of course their focus is on
devices in the enterprise and application security, so tell me
David if you would
I mean what's the challenge right now, is it BYOD?
Is it new applications? Where's your focus?
David Barclay: Yeah, BYOD is definitely a challenge.
and I think a catalyst for what's going on in the industry, but ultimately to IT
they have a security challenge. People are accessing more and more
of their corporate data from a range of mobile devices and people are picky
about
how they do it, when they do it, what device they want to do it with.
So whether it's BYOD or not. The enterprise needs to secure their data
on all these mobile devices. That's really our goal to make it easy on
IT to have application level security on any mobile device.
Walls: So, let's let's take the BYOD crowd. That's becoming increasingly
popular, right among employees
They want to use the device of their choice.
What challenges does that present you? Or your clients?
In terms of keeping that seperation between personal
and professional? that's exactly it because with the the old way to do it
Barclay: That's exactly it, because with the old way to do it was
MDM, where you locked down the entire device and that's okay in terms of security
but, it's really not friendly to the end user especially on the personal device
whre you don't want your company to be tracking you
you don't want your company to accidentally delete your personal pictures
Walls: There goes those birthday pictures, right?
Barclay: Exactly, so the trend is towards this separation
of business versus personal data. It really gives
IT even better security than they have otherwise and
the individual gets a better user experience
Walls: Application security, pretty broad topic, but in terms of intrusions, in terms of
malware
In terms of keeping them secure for those kinds of invasions
How much more work do you have to do, maybe today or concern that you have today
that you might have had a year, two years ago?
Barclay: there certainly more people using mobile devices. I'm not sure if there's more or less malware
on the public app stores, but our goal is to make it as simple as possible
for IT to not worry about that, so we basically have our
environment and we make sure we're very close about what we
allow into that space.
Walls: so, when you say app security then. How would you define that?
Barclay: SOS is about taking anny application whether it's an internally developed or a native app and making it very easy to add
our security framework around that, so it's less about
doing the antivirus and things like that, because we basically have a trusted environment
So, we can control
what we allow into that world. We do that in a way that the enterprises doesn't have to
do any work, so some other solutions will ask the application developer
to rebuild their app with an STK, to add in security features
the way we do it is an automatic wrapping process where we basically
can and inject RCK into that application, so it makes it very easy to
add in all of our framework around any app and it will take the fully fulfilled binary
and return another fully compiled binary with all of our technology
linked right into it and that allows us to do things like have a pin
have on device encryption. Have VPN for data transit all thos security features get added right over the top.
Walls: How much or how far have we come as far as data security?
Compared to the last two or three years to where we are today?
What kind of advances have been made? What do you think is the next generation
what has to be done in order to take the game up another notch?
Barclay: So, in terms of where it's going, it's all about
these are all app platforms, right? It's really a plate of glass whether it's Android or iOS
Users are launching apps. It's about how you can work with as many apps as possible
that's why this workspace approach, we think is the way forward, but you
need to do it in a way
to work with with any apps, right? So it's one thing, we ceded with
our apps, with a pin for email, with a browser. Enterprise can add their own
internal apps
but the missing ingredient is, the way this industry is going, is 72 00:03:57,880 --> 00:03:59,750 about having an ecosystem of secure
third party apps, so at OpenPeak we have a thing we call the sector network
which, basically we go out to ISPs, we've announced with BOX
Splashtop, with Big Tin Can and more on the way, and get them to
pre-secure their applications, so the enterprise can automatically pull the workspace, so
you basically have this
environment with all kinds of different content all locked out.
Walls: So, already re-certified right, you alrdady know, it's guaranteed
whe're okay with this, so you can go ahead you can launch it and
provide IT professionals with that kind of security, which I assume these days
their awareness is way up, it's really high on their radar that
in order to bring the mobile workforce all the capabilities you want
you got to have a high barrier
Barclay: Absolultely.
Walls: Well thank you for being with us, I certainly appreciate the time. David Barclay.