Government agencies have been readily adopting mobile technologies over the past decade to deliver self-service applications to their constituents. However, for internal agencies’ needs they are still faced with lack of hardware support, security and infrastructure challenges when trying to leverage smartphones and mobile devices.

3rd Eye Technologies is a leader in addressing these challenges. I recently spoke with Ron Huda, CEO of 3rd Eye Technologies to learn about their new offerings

Governments do not typically send military personnel to war without first knowing the challenges they are facing. This much is logical. And by that logic, neither our intelligence services nor police forces seek to prevent issues of national security without first attaining a comprehensive understanding of the threats they face.

One of the challenges these institutions now contend with, however, is that they are dealing with an overwhelming amount of data. Getting that data out of the

It is well known that ‘anonymous data’ often isn’t that anonymous. There are a few well-publicized examples of ‘anonymous’ datasets being released that were quickly de-anonymized:

• Netflix published data about movie rankings for 500,000 customers in 2007, and researchers showed they could de-anonymize the data using a few

Far-reaching breaches and hacks have put security at the top of the MUST pile. Conventional wisdom would suggest that outsider attacks are the prime culprit, but according to the SANS Institute, almost half (46%) of security breaches are from the inside. What’s more, the survey of 196 security professionals revealed that “change is slow in happening across the financial services industry while threats continue to get harder to detect and defeat.”

With employees scattered all over the globe, in

Security is getting more and more critical. One recent report from PwC shows the number of security incidents in 2015 increased by 38% compared to 2014. And along with increased risk comes increased spending. According to a recent report by Gartner, worldwide security spending reached $76.9 billion in 2015, and is expected to reach $170 billion by 2020. That’s more than 100 percent growth in just five years.

Needless to say, companies are starting to be more proactive about their approach