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T&A in tough environments

Econz Wireless and Rugged Phones have announced their partnership to provide businesses operating in tough environments with a full set of mobile applications from employee tracking, to time and attendance and payroll integration.

“Rugged Phones offer some of the toughest smartphones available,” says Harry Lane, vice president global channel sales, Econz. “Our suite of mobile apps will enable employers in environments like construction, manufacturing, distribution, and government to not only track their employees while in the field via GPS, but to give them a full time and attendance record of who is on site and when. Fully integrated with their own accounting and payroll system, this gives employers accurate records in real time.”

Chris Hoffman of Rugged Phones says the partnership with Econz Wireless will provide businesses and organisations with an enterprise-class time and attendance system in the toughest conditions. “The TITAN range of Android phones has ratings from IP67 to IP68 for the Titan 5R and 7R. IP68 is the toughest rating that can be awarded to smartphones and means that the TITAN range will operate just about anywhere. All Titan phones are full-featured smart phones/tablets, compliant with US military standard, MIL-STD-810G, which assesses the viability of a product across a broad range of environmental conditions. The addition of the Econz Wireless mobile time and attendance, employee tracking and payroll apps to our offerings is a great fit for our markets which need mobile apps under the toughest conditions.”

Econz Wireless suite of mobile GPS applications include:

* Timecards GPS Lite – Mobile GPS tracking of employees, and basic timecard information.

* Timecard GPS – Mobile time, attendance, and GPS tracking.

* Eservice GPS – Mobile dispatch and work order management system, and GPS tracking.

For more information contact Econz Wireless, +27 (0)82 535 1255, [email protected], www.econz.co.za

SA Companies need a tighter grip on mobiles in 2014

Mobile security and device management will become one of the top challenges for South African companies as attacks on smartphones and tablets are likely to increase again in 2014. So says Richard Broeke, a consultant at Securicom.

“Reports from two major security software vendors in 2013 show a consistent rise in attacks targeting mobile devices, specifically Android devices. A lot of them are phony apps, downloaded from third-party app stores and text messaging Trojans that cause devices to send out SMSes to premium-rate numbers. There is also growing numbers of more aggressive apps that act as spyware, working in a similar fashion as spyware on a computer, to harvest the information the criminal wants.

“Aside from the personal risk and costs associated with these kinds of infections, employees who use unprotected mobile devices to e-mail, store company data, and connect to the Internet or company network, are putting company networks and information at risk,” says Broeke.

“This is where data exists now, outside the organisation on mobile devices. Cyber criminals want access to that data and are therefore focusing on the locations where it exists, namely the mobile world,” says Broeke.

The reason why cyber criminals want access to data on mobile devices is simple – it gives them access to an organisation’s intellectual property, the very thing that makes a business unique and profitable. Companies should protect data that resides on mobile devices for the same reason they have long been implementing measures to protect the data on their endpoints and servers.

“... By not thoroughly investigating the options available to them and trying to save a few rand a month, companies very easily find themselves with an inferior technology, and no real solution to their mobile security or device management challenges.”

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