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Morpho to Help Lead Norway Mobile Security Initiative
findBIOMETRICS Morpho (Safran) is going to help lead a cross-sector coalition seeking to improve mobile security in Norway. Morpho to Help Lead Norway Mobile Security Initiative. Initiated by the Research Council of Norway (RCN), the SWAN (Secure access control over … |
Cisco is acting quickly on its new Security Everywhere initiative with the announcement that it plans to buy Internet security service provider OpenDNS for $ 635 million in cash plus other considerations.
In announcing Security Everywhere at the Cisco Live conference earlier this month the company said one element of the initiative would be using the network as both a sensor and an enforcer of security policy. The sensors are embedded in Cisco gear and the enforcement could be augmented by the OpenDNS service.
OpenDNS, founded in 2005, offers a cloud service that prevents customers from connecting to dangerous Internet IP addresses, such as those known to be associated with criminal activity, botnets and malicious downloads.
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Speaking to a group of reporters on Friday, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) superintendent Ramon C. Cortines said that the city can’t afford to buy a computer for every student. The statement comes after intense controversy over a $ 1.3 billion initiative launched by Cortines’ predecessor, former superintendent John Deasy, in which every student was supposed to be given an iPad loaded with content from educational publisher Pearson.
“I don’t believe we can afford a device for every student,” Cortines told the Los Angeles Times, “Education shouldn’t become the gimmick of the year.” Cortines added that LAUSD had never made a definitive plan for how teachers would have used the iPads during instruction, nor had it planned how it was going to pay for the tablets over time.
In the fall of 2013, schools began receiving iPads that would go to each of the 640,000 students in LAUSD. But the students quickly learned how to work around the ActiveSync profile restrictions on the tablets so that they could use them for (probably) non-educational purposes. That debacle was only the first point of turmoil, however. By the beginning of the next school year, the Los Angeles Times reported that there were improprieties in the bidding process, including hints that the Deputy Superintendent, Jaime Aquino, who was also a former Pearson executive, was helping his former company get the bid. The billion-dollar plan was put on hold at that point.
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This Sunday marks the 10-year anniversary of the launch of Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing initiative, and in a way, the timing couldn’t have been better. Read more