The SAFE Solution: Samsung For Enterprise

A SAFE™ (Samsung for Enterprise) device meets Samsung’s security criteria for such devices and is specifically configured with enterprise use in mind. SAFE is marked for a Samsung device which has been tested against Samsung’s own internal criteria for interoperability with certain third party security-related solutions for MDM and VPN. The testing includes field testing with local network connection and menu tree testing which tests functionality of the solutions in conjunction with the Samsung device. During the testing, the device is tested with the security solutions to see if the solutions work with the device as described by the third party security solution providers.

Mobile Device Management

Maximize Flexibility

Samsung offers comprehensive Mobile Device Management (MDM) capabilities to enable efficient and scaled mobile deployments. Under the SAFE program, Samsung works with a number of leading third-party MDM providers to offer solutions that address even the most challenging management and security concerns. SAFE smartphones and Samsung Galaxy Tab tablets provide ultimate flexibility for IT administrators by allowing them to remotely manage mobile applications and overall device functionality.

Advanced Capabilities for Enhanced Mobility
SAFE Mobile Device Management provides a wide range of benefits for enterprise administrators:

• Enjoy support for “desktop-like” central management
• Wirelessly configure and update settings
• Monitor and enforce compliance with corporate IT policies
• Remotely wipe or lock managed devices
• Control access to application stores and silently push/remove applications
• Enable/disable capabilities, such as: Camera, Wi-Fi®, Bluetooth®, Microphone, Data Roaming

Under the SAFE program, Samsung works with a number of leading third-party MDM providers to address even the most challenging management and security concerns:

• MobileIron™
• SOTI® MobiControl

Corporate Email/Calendar/Contacts

Maximize Efficiency

SAFE devices offer extensive support for communication systems such as Microsoft® Exchange ActiveSync® and extend beyond the native capabilities of standard smartphones and tablets. Designed to maximize the efficiency and productivity of large enterprise users, these devices are ideal for widespread deployment.

Syncing Objectives with Results
Samsung’s Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync support enables push synchronization of email, contacts and calendar items to SAFE smartphones and Samsung Galaxy Tab tablets. These advanced capabilities provide a persistent connection and allow users to enhance their productivity with a wide range of business-critical functions, such as:

• Access global address list
• Create and respond to meeting requests
• Set out-of-office assistant, email priority status and follow-up flags
• Sort emails by various categories
• Conversation view mode
• View reply status

On-Device Encryption

Maximize Security

SAFE devices help prevent unauthorized access to mobile data by leveraging the AES 256-bit encryption standard.

Uncompromised Security.
Uncompromised Performance.
SAFE Mobile Encryption Support is easily implemented and does not sacrifice speed or functionality. This aids in providing total peace of mind for corporate IT administrators through comprehensive encryption of all data, including app-specific internal data and internal/external memory.

On-Device Encryption can be enabled through:

• Microsoft® Exchange ActiveSync® IT Policy
• Mobile Device Management IT Policy
• Manually on the Device*

Added performance comes from fast boot-up and conversion time during the initial device encryption process.

*Manual On-Device Encryption only available on Android™ 3.1 (Honeycomb) and higher.

Virtual Private Network

Maximize Accessibility

Samsung’s support of virtual private network connectivity provides mobile professionals with secure connections to corporate resources from almost anywhere. SAFE smartphones and Samsung Galaxy Tab tablets support protocols and authentication measures that allow better security and faster access for enhanced off-site productivity.

Under the SAFE program, enterprise users are provided an optimized, secure path to corporate resources from their device, such as:

• Corporate Intranet and Email
• Network Resources
• Software Applications

Samsung works with a number of industry leading VPN providers to enable IP-based encryption for secure, persistent, behind-the-firewall access to critical enterprise assets via Wi-Fi® and cellular network connections.

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Disclaimer of Warranties: TO THE FULL EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., SAMSUNG TELECOMMUNICATIONS AMERICA, LLC, AND THEIR AFFILIATES (COLLECTIVELY REFERRED TO HEREIN AS THE “SAMSUNG ENTITIES”) EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, INTEROPERABILITY OR NON-INFRINGEMENT, WITH RESPECT TO INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SECURITY PROTECTION, SAFE™ DEVICES AND APPLICATIONS TESTED WITH SAFE™ DEVICES. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE SAMSUNG ENTITIES BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER WITH RESPECT TO INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SECURITY PROTECTION, SAFE™ DEVICES OR APPLICATIONS TESTED WITH SAFE™ DEVICES. In addition, information technology security protection will be affected by features or functionality associated with, among other things the e-mail platform, master data management, and virtual private network solutions selected by the software provider, solution provider or user. Choice of an e-mail, master data management, and virtual private network solution is at the sole discretion of the software provider, solution provider or user and any associated effect on information technology security protection is solely the responsibility of the software provider, solution provider or user. For complete statement of limited warranty, please refer to www.samsung.com/us/safe, available on the web and where Samsung smartphone and Galaxy Tab™ devices are sold.

If you got used to press Start menu and select the program that you want to run you should know from start that for the time, the start menu is gone, unless you use some 3rd parties applications to re-instate. But who knows, we did not liked Windows 7 from the beginning and it turned out to be a better OS than the crappy Vista.

Windows 8 system requirements:

If you want to run Windows 8 on your PC, here’s what it takes:

Processor: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster with support for PAE, NX, and SSE2 (more info)

RAM: 1 gigabyte (GB) (32-bit) or 2 GB (64-bit)

Hard disk space: 16 GB (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)

Graphics card: Microsoft DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM driver

Additional requirements to use certain features:

To use touch, you need a tablet or a monitor that supports multitouch (more info)

To access the Windows Store and to download and run apps, you need an active Internet connection and a screen resolution of at least 1024 x 768

To snap apps, you need a screen resolution of at least 1366 x 768

Internet access (ISP fees might apply)

Secure boot requires firmware that supports UEFI v2.3.1 Errata B and has the Microsoft Windows Certification Authority in the UEFI signature database

Some games and programs might require a graphics card compatible with DirectX 10 or higher for optimal performance

Microsoft account required for some features

Watching DVDs requires separate playback software (more info)

Windows Media Center license sold separately (more info)

BitLocker To Go requires a USB flash drive (Windows 8 Pro only)

BitLocker requires either Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 1.2 or a USB flash drive (Windows 8 Pro only)

Client Hyper-V requires a 64-bit system with second level address translation (SLAT) capabilities and additional 2 GB of RAM (Windows 8 Pro only)

A TV tuner is required to play and record live TV in Windows Media Center (Windows 8 Pro Pack and Windows 8 Media Center Pack only)

Free Internet TV content varies by geography, some content might require additional fees (Windows 8 Pro Pack and Windows 8 Media Center Pack only)

To check if your PC meets these requirements, you can run the Upgrade Assistant.

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Microsoft has released an out-of-band update fixing at least five vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, including the recently disclosed zero-day vulnerability already being exploited in the wild.

The emergency patch applies to all supported editions of Windows desktop, including XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Server 2008, and affects Internet Explorer versions 6, 7, 8, and 9, Microsoft said in its patch advisory released today. Internet Explorer 10, coming soon with Windows 8, is not vulnerable. All the vulnerabilities fixed are rated as “Critical.”

Three of the vulnerabilities were in Internet Explorer 9 and the fourth impacted only Internet Explorer 7 and 8, Microsoft said. The zero-day vulnerability disclosed last weekend, affected all browsers, from IE 6 to IE 9. The patch (MS12-063), rated as “Critical,” fixed the privately disclosed OnMove Use After Free, Listener Use After Free, Layout Use-After-Free, and the cloneNode Use After Free  vulnerabilities. The zero day, the execCommand Use After Free vulnerability, is the only one among the five that was publicly disclosed and already being used in attacks.

“Today we released a security update to address the Internet Explorer issue impacting a small number of customers. While attacks have been limited, for increased protection, customers should apply the update as soon as possible if they do not have automatic updates enabled,” Yunsun Wee, director of Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing Group, told SecurityWatch over email.

Microsoft published an advisory confirming the vulnerability and offering workarounds on Monday, issued a “Fix-It” tool on Wednesday, and released a patch on Friday.That’s pretty fast, especially for a large behemoth like Microsoft.

Users who installed the temporary “fix it” tool earlier this week to protect themselves can apply the patch without removing the fix-it tool.

“We recommend installing as soon as possible, even if you are not running one of the configurations that are currently being exploited,” Wolfgang Kandek, CTO of Qualys, told SecurityWatch.

Separately, Microsoft issued an update for vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player in Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012. The update closes the vulnerabilities in Flash Player which Adobe fixed in two different updates last month.

“Microsoft released an update to help protect customers from vulnerabilities affecting Adobe Flash Player in Internet Explorer 10. We are working closely with Adobe to help protect our customers and deliver quality protections that are aligned with Adobe’s update process,” Wee said.

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So, Whats your bank PIN Number ? 1111 or 0000 ?

If you lost your ATM card on the street, how easy would it be for someone to correctly guess your PIN and proceed to clean out your savings account? Not long, according to data scientist, Nick Berry, founder of Data Genetics, a Seattle technology consultancy.

Berry analyzed passwords previously from released and exposed password tables and security breaches and filtered the results to just those that were exactly four digits long [0-9]. There are 10,000 possible combinations that the digits 0-9 can be arranged to form a four-digit code. Berry analyzed those to find which are the least and most predictable. He speculates that if users select a four-digit password for an online account or other web site, it’s not a stretch to use the same number for their four-digit bank PIN codes.

What he found, he says, was a “staggering lack of imagination” when it comes to selecting passwords. Nearly 11% of the 3.4 million four-digit passwords he analyzed are 1234. The second most popular PIN in is 1111 (6% of passwords), followed by 0000 (2%). (Last year SplashData compiled a list of the most common numerical and word-based passwords and found that the “password” and “123456″ topped the list.)
Berry says that a whopping 26.83% of all passwords could be guessed by attempting just 20 combinations of four-digit numbers (see first table). “It’s amazing how predictable people are,” he says.

We don’t like hard-to-remember numbers and “no one thinks their wallet will get stolen,” Berry says.

Days, months, years
Many of the commonly used passwords are, of course, dates: birthdays, anniversaries, the year you were born, etc. Indeed, using a year, starting with 19__ helps people remember their code, but it also increases its predictability, Berry says. His analysis shows that every single 19__ combination be found in the top 20% of the dataset.

“People use years, date of birth — it’s a monumentally stupid thing to do because if you lose your wallet, your driver’s license is in there. If someone finds it, they’ve got the date of birth on there. At least use a parent’s date of birth [as a password],” says Berry.

Keyboard patterns

Somewhat intriguing was #22 on the most common password list: 2580. It seems random, but if you look at a telephone keypad (or ATM keypad) you’ll see those numbers are straight down the middle — yet another sign we’re uncreative and lazy password makers.

The least predictable password
The least-used PIN is 8068, Berry found, with just 25 occurrences in the 3.4 million set, which equates to 0.000744%. (See the second table for the least popular passwords.) Why this set of numbers? Berry guesses, “It’s not repeating pattern, it’s not a birthday, it’s not the year Columbus discovered America, it’s not 1776.” At a certain point, these numbers at the bottom of the list are all kind of “the lowest of the low, they’re all noise,” he says.

A few other interesting tidbits from Berry:

-The most popular PIN code (1234) is more popular than the lowest 4,200 codes combined.
- People have even less imagination in choosing five-digit passwords — 28% use 12345.
- The fourth most popular seven-digit password is 8675309, the Tommy Tutone song.
-People love using couplets for their PINs: 4545, 1313, etc. And for some reason, they don’t like using pairs of numbers that have larger numerical gaps between them. Combinations like 45 and 67 occur much more frequently than 29 and 37.
- The 17th-most common 10-digit password is 3141592654 (for you non-math nerds, those are the first digits of Pi).

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* Security experts see little noise following U.S. move

* Some Internet providers move to protect customers

By Jim Finkle

BOSTON, July 9 (Reuters) – Fears that a computer virus might cut Internet access around the world appeared to be overblown o n Mo nday after U.S. authorities removed a safety net that had protected infected machines for months.

Shortly after midnight EDT, the authorities cut off computer servers in New York City that had been put in place to direct traffic for infected computers, which would have been unable to access the Internet without their help.

Some blogs and news reports had warned that the shutdown of the servers could trigger a potential “blackout” and described the malicious software as the “Internet Doomsday” virus.

But the virus lacked the strength that some had feared.

“I don’t expect much noise today,” said Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at F Secure, a computer security firm based in Finland.

Victims of the virus originally required assistance because the virus had changed settings on their PCs, diverting Internet traffic through rogue servers that showed them advertisements. Police them shut down in November.

Infected machines would have been unable to access the Web unless they were repaired, so authorities put the backup system in place as a stopgap measure.

As of Sunday the number of machines using the clean servers was down to 211,000, with about 42,000 in the United States, according to the FBI.

That is a tiny fraction of the world’s more than 1 billion Internet users, said Luis Corrons Granel, technical director with the research lab of anti-virus software maker Panda Security. “Not a big impact,” he said.

The number of users who actually lost Internet service was likely far fewer than the 211,000 who accessed the temporary server on Sunday, said Hypponen, of F Secure.

That is because many Internet service providers, including AT&T Inc and Time Warner Cable, set up their own servers so their customers with infected machines could continue to access the Internet.

“It’s the 9th of July, and the Internet has not exploded into bits and pieces,” remarked one Twitter user.

The United States has charged seven people with orchestrating the worldwide Internet fraud. Six were arrested in Estonia, while the seventh, who was living in Russia, is still at large. Estonia has extradited two of the men to New York, where they appeared in Manhattan federal court.

The case is USA v. Tsastsin et al, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, No. 11-cr-878.

Read fuill article and comments http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/09/internet-outage-idUSL2E8I93MR20120709

Takeaway: Outlook seems to lend itself to worst practices. Luckily, a little education can help prevent a lot of user-induced headaches.

Outlook users probably generate the most annoying calls for support personnel. Word and Excel users want to know how to “do stuff,” but Outlook users usually need something fixed. They’re not malicious mistakes by any means, but Outlook is a complex tool and users are preoccupied with getting their work done — things just happen. Training goes a long way in many cases. If you can teach your users not to do these 10 things, you and your users will all be happier.

1: Clicking Reply All

When someone sends a message to multiple accounts, the recipients can respond to everyone by choosing Reply All instead of Reply. That means some of your users will get responses they don’t need to see. It’s a waste of their time. It’s probably the most annoying thing Outlook users do. There’s no cure for this one except to tell them not to. Some will ignore you, and some will do it accidentally anyway.

2: Using the all list

Many organizations have distribution lists so employees can send the same message to everyone on their team, everyone in the editorial department, all the managers, and so on. But one list usually goes to everyone in the organization. Users rejoice to learn that they can let everyone know when their daughters are selling cookies, when they’re going on vacation, when they’ve moved their office, when they’re collecting for a good cause… you see where this is going. This breach of good manners annoys everyone.

Tell your users to use the list judiciously — seldom, if at all. If it becomes a problem, restrict who can use the list.

3: Opening attachments from strangers

Some users see an attachment as a gift — surprise! They just can’t help themselves. You can tell users not to open attachments, but good virus protection will usually protect the system, just in case. That’s the good news. The bad news is, users still open attachments from strangers.

4: Clicking links

Clicking links is fun. They take you to cool sites with all kinds of offers and fun stuff — and embedded controls and scripts that do all kinds of evil things to the system. Most links are harmless, but most users can’t discern a legitimate link from one that leads to a phishing site, hard drive failure, or worse.

Consistent training helps, but experience is the best teacher. Making this mistake carries a heavy fine: The user can’t work until someone fixes the system. It’s also humiliating and can be a bit scary for them. Implement the best software defenses you can, consistently remind users not to click links in unsolicited emails, and hope for the best.

5: Sharing stuff

I can’t help wondering how much bandwidth and storage users waste spreading gossip and sharing angels will save the world chain letters, pictures of their offspring doing adorable things, and so on. Most organizations tolerate this misuse to promote harmony, even if it is annoying and wasteful. It’s hard to put a price on good will.

6: Forgetting passwords

Long heavy mournful sigh, followed by a bit of gentle head banging.

Most users don’t have to password-protect Outlook, but occasionally, you run into a setup where multiple users access their email via the same machine. To access their account, they have to remember their password. Good luck with that.

7: Ignoring messages

Some users just don’t want to communicate via email. They don’t like it and they don’t want it. But in most organizations, email is no longer a convenience; it’s how co-workers interact. Unfortunately, there’s always one or two users who refuse to play nicely, who ignore emails or claim, “I never got that message.” You can try to correct this behavior through training, but it usually turns into a management issue.

8: Sending email to everyone in their address book

Sending an email to everyone in the address book isn’t easy to do — I mean, it’s not easy to do by accident. Yet users still manage to do it. This is especially annoying if Outlook adds every sender to the address book as emails arrive. What a wasteful, annoying mess, especially if you have to get the administrator involved to try to recall them. (Just thinking about calling an admin makes me genuflect uncontrollably.) Training won’t help here. Just say, “Don’t ever do that again.”

9: Deleting necessary items

One of the great support mysteries is why Outlook users delete contacts, only to discover they need them after all. This happens with all Outlook items, in fact: emails, tasks, appointments, and so on. You might encourage users not to be so quick to delete items. Let old items hang around for a while until they’re truly obsolete. The exception is email; no one benefits from a neglected Inbox.

10: Deleting a profile

Outlook profiles relate accounts and settings to specific users. Most users will have only one, but having more than one is an efficient way to keep things separate. For instance, users might want a profile for work and another for home. You can also accommodate multiple users on the same machine  by creating a profile for each user. Unfortunately, they sometimes delete profiles. I’m not sure how or why they do it, but they do.

Can you use the QWERTY keyboard to find out the extension of the person that you are calling ?

Well, if you are unsure if this will work or not, I challenge you to try before reading this post.

Maybe it happened to you as it happens to other “frustrated” users that I know or you heard something like “I tried to call you but I could not get through because your name is not listed under the directory” .

In these technological days we forget that most of the phone that we have out there are still using the 12 buttons phones and the phone systems are based on that technology. The answer to both of the question is YES!!! but ….

For question number 1 – if you have a QWERTY phone and you want to dial 1 800 OCANADA you have to make sure that you hold the ALT key, this will translate the letters to the proper numbers.

For question number 2 – here it gets a little more complicated you really have to think or visualize the 12 button phones, with the exception of the latest touch screen blackberry where you can see on the display the standard keyboard.