Does Android P private DNS really contribute to privacy? Or to Enterprise control?

Private DNS is a new feature in Android P, which allows you to globally override the DNS settings (received from your carrier, hotspot provider etc.). This means that the said carrier's or provider's DNS servers will not be able to log your browsing habits. Read more here (Android Police). This looks like privacy, but isn't...

iOS Trustjacking protection with EMM

Trustjacking is a new "scary" attack on iOSnew "scary" attack on iOS devices, exploiting user's lack of understanding or what's going on. When plugging into an unknown computer or charger user may choose to "trust" it, which allows the remote device quite a degree of access to iPhone/iPad data. Many don't realize that this trust...

Change of wind

Those of you who follow me on LinkedIn may have noticed that I have a new workplace, which comes with a Digital Workspace. This means less wireless, but even more on Enterprise Mobility, EMMs, mobile security Android, iOS, Windows 10 and MacOS (did you know that both MS and Apple made their desktop OSes manageable...

Do Android Enterprise and GMS mean the end of differentiation for Android Device and EMM vendors?

After publishing my post regarding tightening the screws on non-GMS devices and gradual move towards all-GMS in the Enterprise, I have received a response, which was very representative of what I was thinking last year, when digesting all the Android Enterprise news [formatting and edit by me]: AOSP was or still is the major [vendor] ...

The final nail in the coffin of the non-GMS Enterprise devices?

Google had taken a long way to make GMS (Google Mobile Services, i.e. Play Store etc) acceptable, useful and then essential for the Enterprises. Now, the final nail in the coffin is being prepared... Pre-history Initially, GMS-enabled devices were unusable in the Enterprise setting: wonky Google's privacy policy, requirement for individual user accounts (on 1000s...