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ness data including, critically,
accessing the business intranet.
Your IT administrator no longer
has to worry about what you
do personally. Hence, half of the
problem is solved. And for an
added benefit, the user’s privacy
in using the personal OS can also
be assured.
GSN: How is it used – how would
I go back and forth between business
and personal computing?
LH: It’s easy. You just click the
switch icon to move to the other
OS. Takes about 3 seconds. This
allows the open OS to hibernate
and activates the second OS. We
also provide optional password
authentication. It’s just like opening
an app, and entering a password.
GSN: Do you think WorkPlay
Technology is a game-changer, a
real difference-maker?
LH: Well, you can buy two mobile
devices or laptops if you
want, use one for business and
one personally. Of course even
then you’d have to keep both
open or constantly boot up.
But using just one device instead
of two? Yes it changes the game
in several ways: So long as you
use the same resources, like one
kernel, a software method like
containers or hypervisors is susceptible
to malware that gains the
elevated privileges to access the
entire device. Is this a real threat?
Ponemon just issued a new report
and 38% of the respondents
found container and other security
like complex firewalls still
vulnerable. In point of fact, over
the last year, we have been reading
about the vulnerabilities of
these methods constantly. Moreover,
our own technical people
discovered multiple vulnerabilities
in existing mainstream products
when we were evaluating
their compatibility with Work-
Play Technology. So I’ll say it as
a rhetorical question - - why not
take half the risk away?
GSN: Why wouldn’t WorkPlay
Technology replace existing dual
persona solutions?
LH: Because you still would often
want those solutions inside
at least the business OS. Think
of WorkPlay Technology as a
unique, secure and cost-effective
method to provide truly two devices
in one. Everything else is
the same. The apps, the security,
all the same. You may still want
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other solutions to protect data inside
an OS. And these days, it is
more important than ever to protect
the end user device as much
as you can.
GSN: Why is that now increasingly
important?
LH: It’s evidently become the
path of least resistance, often
through phishing and spearphishing.
While SONY received
extensive publicity for its data
breach, but meanwhile, we’ve
lost untold amounts of government
data through cybercrime
like Operations Pawn Storm and
Cleaver. Unwittingly, government
and military personnel introduced
malware by simply clicking
“Like” on Facebook, exposing
government data. Moreover,
cybercrime like Pawn Storm has
been going on for seven years, say
the reports. Social media are also
being targeted more and more:
Facebook and YouTube were the
sources of several large breaches
last year. In the case of the most
publicized enterprise breaches,
like Target and Home Depot,
over a hundred million records
were exposed through a phishing
attack. I’m not saying they all
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