The cybercrime landscape is evolving - Will your current mobile defense strategy remain the same?
As the workforce becomes increasingly mobile, organizations need to adapt their security strategies to address the increased threat surface. While mobility undeniably helps organizations increase productivity, it also creates considerable weaknesses in the IT environment.
How can companies strike a balance between giving employees 24/7 access to their work and protecting their networks from data thieves who want to exploit mobile vulnerabilities? The solution: A new approach to security that enables organizations and their employees to adapt to the evolving mobile threat landscape.
Why do you need more dynamic mobile security?
With the proliferation of IoT devices, corporate networks are more open to the outside world than ever before. While it is certainly critical to establish and enforce an enterprise-wide security policy, this alone is not sufficient to contain the volume and variety of today's mobile threats.
A unified endpoint management (EMU) solution must be a fundamental part of this digital strategy. Platforms that harness the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to protect smartphones, digital tablets, laptops, wearable technologies, and other connected devices give organizations the visibility they need to protect their mobile environments.
To effectively monitor threats on mobile devices, security teams also need advanced insights into user activity to identify new attack schemes. Mobile threat protection technologies enable organizations to take an innovative and dynamic approach to security. In this new field of expertise, precision is the name of the game.
Modern mobile threat protection solutions use artificial intelligence engines to process large volumes of intelligence and generate accurate information to help analysts defend their mobile networks more effectively. These systems operate on the philosophy that mobile device management and protection are inextricably linked, enabling IT leaders to integrate device, application and content management with strong mobile security. With the ability to monitor threats and automate compliance, security doesn't have to cost the user experience.
Defining your mobile threat defense strategy.
It may seem obvious to implement a mobile threat protection solution, but setting the right criteria to move forward can be tricky. Finally, the goal is to protect business data accessed by mobile devices as dynamically and efficiently as possible. Strange as it may seem, protection against malware Mobile is the easy part.
The challenge is to determine the unique needs of the organization and tailor security policy to address these peculiarities.
When considering an investment in mobile threat detection, security leaders should ask themselves:
- What are the fundamentals of mobile threat defense?
- What existing security measures fall short when it comes to fighting mobile threats?
- What value can an organization derive from a mobile threat detection solution?
- What are the pitfalls that security teams should avoid?
Due to various data privacy regulations, industry standards and cultural factors that affect each organization, flexibility and personalization are critical criteria when planning a mobile security strategy.
The threat landscape is expanding as the workforce embraces mobility, and now is the time to invest in more dynamic and stronger solutions to protect increasingly connected corporate networks.
Original Text: IBM Security Intelligence June 29, 2018 |
