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T-Mobile collaborates with Apple to simplify IT management for small businesses


T-Mobile is joining forces with Apple to introduce a plan JUST for small businesses that tackles pain points they face keeping their business and employees connected.

Available now, Business Unlimited Ultimate+ for iPhone is the first and only wireless plan that makes IT easy for small businesses, pairing Apple Business Essentials with AppleCare+ for Business Essentials, along with a new iPhone 13 for new lines, 200GB of high-speed hotspot data per month, and more.

To start and grow a business, technology is essential. In fact, studies show nearly 90% of companies require their employees to access an average of five mobile business apps every day. But for that to happen, business owners go through many steps, from purchasing the best devices, onboarding and upgrading those devices, keeping them secure and up to date, and configuring apps and settings for each one. It’s A LOT for a small business to handle, but it doesn’t need to be.

That’s exactly why T-Mobile and Apple have teamed up — to make things simpler for all types of small businesses with one amazing plan: Ultimate+ for iPhone. This new plan is packed with a ton of great benefits for small businesses:

  • Each employee who adds a new line on the plan gets a new iPhone 13 — sleek and durable, with super-fast performance and long battery life.
  • Ultimate+ for iPhone is the ONLY wireless plan that enables customers to get the all-new Apple Business Essentials, which combines device management, 24/7 Apple support, and iCloud backup and storage — into a single, flexible subscription.
  • There’s unlimited talk, text, and premium smartphone data on America’s largest, fastest, and most reliable 5G network.
  • This plan includes a whopping 200GB of high-speed hotspot data per month, so small businesses can keep all their devices connected.
  • Customers get unlimited Wi-Fi on select flights from American, Delta, and Alaska Airlines — with more airlines, including United, launching later this year.
  • Finally, this plan helps keep business customers connected in over 210 countries and destinations across the world with unlimited text and data, including 5GB of free high-speed data per month.

All this for just $50 a month…

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T-Mobile and Deutsche Telekom launch IoT solution to simplify connectivity for enterprises


T-Mobile US and Deutsche Telekom AG launched T-IoT, a comprehensive enterprise solution for global IoT connectivity, platform management and support.

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With T-IoT, enterprises have one global team and one global solution to manage all their connections across borders! And it will be available across 188 destinations, on 383 networks worldwide.

“The Un-carrier rewrote the rules of wireless. Now, as America’s 5G leader, with the fastest, largest, and most reliable 5G network, we’re writing the rules of the 5G era, and we’re doing it in favor of customers and businesses,” said Mike Katz, President, T-Mobile Business Group. “With T-IoT and our award-winning networks, we’re poised to help businesses realize the true potential of IoT by completely disrupting the status quo of how IoT is purchased and managed.”

Unleashing the power of IoT

Despite all the excitement around IoT’s ability to make the connected world a reality, unlock valuable business insights, improve customer experience, cut operational costs, and boost efficiency—many enterprises haven’t fully captured value at scale from IoT. Why is this still happening in 2022? A major reason is that Carriers make enterprises jump through hoops to manage IoT connectivity globally. To deploy multinational IoT connections, enterprises have to cobble together a patchwork of operator agreements—all with different contracts, service level agreements, management interfaces, and customer support.

And 5G promises to take IoT to the next level, with cellular 5G IoT connections projected to make up 57 percent of all worldwide cellular IoT connections by 20251. With 5G’s ability to support low-latency, massive data use, and connect up to 100x more devices than 4G—enterprises have a HUGE opportunity to embrace new use cases and actionable data that will make the longstanding vision of 5G IoT a reality.

But the gap between the promise of 5G IoT and reality will be wide if managing all that connectivity and data remains unnecessarily complex.

Here’s why: Imagine millions of tracked assets moving across the globe. To stay connected to those assets, enterprises have to negotiate numerous contracts with multiple…

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How to Simplify WAF Rule Management


As long as web application firewalls (WAFs) have existed, security teams have struggled with tuning and maintaining WAF signatures and rulesets. It is thankless, neverending work, and even in the best cases, prone to frequent false positives and false negatives. Yet even though it is one of the most long-standing complaints of legacy WAFs, it is a problem that never seems to go away.

So why has the industry been stuck fighting the same problem for so long? Is it something that can be fixed, or is the pain of rule management the unavoidable “death and taxes” of AppSec? At ThreatX, we are focused on finally making this problem go away by providing a platform that makes security much stronger while getting security teams off the rule management treadmill.

So let’s take a look below the surface to see why legacy rules are so problematic and what we can do about it.

A Common Problem Based on Common DNA

Legacy WAFs tend to suffer from the same problems when it comes to rules because they all fundamentally work the same way. In fact, many of the most popular commercial WAFs rely on the same underlying rules defined by ModSecurity. ModSecurity is a well-known open-source WAF, and its Core Rule Set (CRS) contains more than 17,000 regular expression-based rules. Each WAF vendor may customize and tune these modsec rules to their liking, but under the hood, they are virtually identical.

This has led to an entire industry of WAFs where the core detection engines are all based on regex matching rules. And in most cases, WAFs require a LOT of these rules. And while rules and signatures are not inherently bad, a regex-centered view of the world can certainly lead to a wide range of challenges including …

False Positives and Negatives

Regex rules look for specific string matches that match to a known threat. For example, this might be a pattern of a SQL injection such as the user entering a UNION and SELECT statement for usernames and passwords that reside in an application’s database. And while regex rules can look for these statements, every use of “union” and “select” isn’t necessarily a sign of evil. For example, I’ve recently talked to a prospect whose legacy WAF had…

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Tech Data offers Google Android Essentials to simplify mobile device security – PCR


Tech Data has extended its partnership with Google to include the new Android Essentials mobile device management (MDM) service.

Tech Data has set-up the Android Essentials Zero-Touch Enrolment area on InTouch (it’s online procurement and order management platform). This is already up and running, making it easy to add, register and enable devices. Tech Data already has a strong partnership with Google on Chromebooks and the Pixel range, and this extends and adds further strength to that partnership.

Simon Bennett, Director, Enterprise Software and Cloud, Tech Data, UK and Ireland, said: “The explosion in use of mobile devices has led to mobile device management becoming a big challenge for organisations. Up to this point they have been faced with making a choice between highly-functional ‘full fat’ enterprise-focused solutions that are quite expensive to deploy, or basically, having no MDM.

“While over 50 percent of the mobile devices deployed for business use in Western Europe are Android-based, according to IDC*, most businesses do not have an MDM solution in place. That’s the gap that Google’s Android Essentials is aiming to fill – and it is now available through Tech Data.”

 Tech Data’s training modules are, covering Android Essentials Zero-Touch Enrolment will be available to existing reseller partners free of charge on Tech Data’s Channel Academy training platform.

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