According to our latest State of Enterprise Mobile Report, mobile devices continue to be the target of attack at increasing rates. There is a relatively simple explanation for this – in a typical organization today, 60 percent of the endpoints containing or accessing enterprise data are mobile; the majority of […]
I started working at Zimperium late January this year in the marketing communications department, and well…I’m busy. Every day is something new. Monday – OS problem. Tuesday – “Joker” malware downloaded. Wednesday – Phones could be hacked with a single text message. Thursday – Phishing scams on the rise. Friday […]
According to Gartner’s 2019 Hype Cycle for Endpoint Security, “Enterprises with average security requirements that do not provide much more than email to their mobile users, address mobile security today by establishing a security baseline and enforcing it via unified endpoint management (UEM).” UEM is a class of software tools […]
According to Gartner’s 2019 Hype Cycle for Endpoint Security, “As traditional endpoint security remodernizes and mobile security innovation slows down, the two areas have reached similar levels of maturity. The convergence between mobile and more-traditional endpoints will increasingly allow security leaders to define common endpoint security strategies for all endpoint […]
In the first three blogs of this series, I discussed why mobile devices are easy prey, what data is at risk, and how mobile devices can be hacked. For the final blog in this series, I will discuss how to fully protect your mobile device. Operating systems like iOS and […]
In an excellent and deep blog analysis, Ian Beer of Google’s Project Zero outlines five separate iOS exploit chains that were found on a small collection of hacked websites. The hacked sites were being used in indiscriminate watering hole attacks against their visitors, using iOS 0-day. (For another watering hole […]
Liberation. It’s a powerful word. It’s about freedom from limits on thought or behavior. The reason why I bring this up is because I recently heard from a prospect of mine, here in London, who mentioned he was liberating his employees by giving them the ability to work away from […]
“The good, the bad and the ugly” is a well-known expression, but when it comes to mobile phishing, I suggest shifting the order. Let’s talk about the bad, the ugly and the good. The Bad: Mobile Takes Phishing from Bad to Worse Phishing is one of the most dominant attack […]
Mobile devices contain or have access to the same information as traditional endpoints. While billions of dollars have been spent protecting and securing traditional endpoints, very little has been invested to protect mobile device endpoints. Attackers work on the same model as any other business: where do they get the […]
These last few days could have CIOs and CISOs very nervous. Two news stories about mobile devices pose real threats for enterprises around the world: From Forbes, “millions of shiny new Android smartphones are being purchased with dangerous malware factory-installed, according to Google’s own security research team.” Also from Forbes, […]
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