Reconeixement facial en Android 4.0?

Un altre pas en la bona direcció, si s’acompanya d’una bona configuració (cal reconeixement facial per desbloquejar en tot moment? o només cada cert número d’hores? o només quan no recordes el PIN?)

Google hasn’t really released too many details on the new “Face Unlock” feature in Android Ice Cream Sandwich, which lets users unlock their handhelds by simply staring into their devices’ digital camera lenses. So it’s unclear whether or not Face Unlock will meet organizations’ security requirements and serve as a suitable number- or alphanumeric-password replacement. But if so, the feature could make it easier for users to unlock devices while still maintaining data security.

mitjançantAndroid 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich: Best New Features for Business CIO.com.

Xifrat en Android 4.0

Un pas en la bona direcció:

The latest version of Android, 4.0, supports full on-device data encryption, according to Dan Morrill, a Google engineer who works on the Android OS. Past versions of the Android handheld OS could connect to Microsoft Exchange Servers for access to corporate e-mail, calendars, contacts and more, but only if those Exchange Servers did not have a device-encryption IT policy enabled.

mitjançantAndroid 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich: Best New Features for Business CIO.com.

40 hard-won business continuity lessons from the NZ and Japan quakes

Un article molt interessant sobre les lliçons apreses en els desastres de Nova Zelanda i Japó.

Rob Slade and I wrote an article capturing forty business continuity lessons arising from the massive earthquakes in New Zealand and Japan. It has just been published in EDPACS and, thanks to the generosity of the publishers Taylor and Francis, it is available as a free PDF download.Aside from the specific lessons concerning resilience, crisis management, disaster recovery, and contingency management, our article illustrates a broader point, namely that it is not necessary to experience disasters first-hand in order to learn from them. If you are fortunate enough not to live and work in an earthquake-prone area, there are still valid lessons here to help you survive other natural and unnatural disasters.Gary Hinson CISSP

Enllaç: ISC2 Blog: 40 hard-won business continuity lessons from the NZ and Japan quakes.

Per la lectura que n’he fet, m’agrada molt l’èmfasi que posa en la planificació o anticipació de la possibilitat de sofrir un desastre i alguns consells d’activitats preventives (per exemple: preveu com comunicar-te sense el correu, la centraleta telefònica o el directori de l’empresa). Però m’ha semblat entre fluix i desencertat la forma de tractar els mitjans de comunicació (intentar evitar-los???) o algunes propostes excessivament paranoiques per incloure-les en un document generalista. Alguns exemples d’aquest últim punt:

• prepara queviures per sobreviure setmanes??? estem parlant d’empreses!
• pensa en com fer tornar els empleats a la feina tot i els problemes que puguin tenir a casa i amb la família? en general, la família ha d’anar molt per davant de l’empresa! (és clar que hi ha excepcions en cas d’emergència pública)