Mobile data security has become a critical issue for enterprise businesses, in fact 47% of businesses do not encrypt sensitive data that's transferred on open networks.
Whether you prioritise the need to avoid fines for data breaches or to protect your organisation’s reputation or brand, the faster a data breach can be identified and contained, the lower the damage and costs incurred.
Ransomware, malware, and hackers tend to make the best cybersecurity threat headlines, yet in reality, mobile security breaches stemming from human error are just as or even a more common security threat.
Many data leaks are the result of carelessness and other internal slip-ups. In fact, complacency is one of the greatest risks to mobile data security faced by businesses today.
It’s important to manage the identity of the mobile technology accessing your network and implement strong technologies and automated processes to improve security, reduce information loss and reputation risk.
With Mobile Threat Detection your organisation can detect and analyse threats as well as take swift action against them and restore compromised devices to a compliant state. This technology detects and remediates malware, viruses, worms, bots, phishing, and a variety of other cyber threats.
With Mobile Information Security technology, you can set up protocols to ensure the right data can always be accessed by the right people, when and where it is required.
See Mobile Device Management (MDM) as a minimum requirement. This technology prevents unauthorised access to corporate data, helps ensure that mobile devices are compliant with corporate mobile policies, and provides capability to remotely lock and wipe a compromised device.
Mobile Threat Management (MTM) is used to improve your enterprise security protection well beyond the provisions offered by MDM platforms and EMM capability. It further enhances the capabilities of MTD technologies with proven processes to design, build, maintain, manage, support and report on cybersecurity within your business.
With a fully integrated MDM/MTD solution, Automated Alert and Remediation capability enables you to return compromised devices to a compliant state and ensure authorised users have access to the company resources they need, when they need them.
While the range and variety of mobile security threats are rising, all too often, it’s employees who create the weakest link when it comes to enterprise mobile security. In cafes, hotels and airports, employees invariably prioritise convenience over security and use a Wi-Fi hotspot even when there’s no guarantee it’s fully secure. If they are using their own devices, they may neglect to update the operating system to the latest version which means they don’t have the latest security patches installed.
48% of employees sacrifice mobile security for the sake of speed and efficiency. Verizon Mobile Security Index 2019
According to Verizon’s Mobile Security Index 2019, 81% of organisations point to employees as their biggest mobile security risk. To mitigate this risk, businesses need to implement actionable solutions and enforceable security policies, including:
Update company policies to protect business travellers from both malicious and inadvertent mobile data security breaches.
Multi-factor authentication provides an extra layer of security for users accessing company apps, tools, and data. Users are required to prove their identities using two or more verification methods before they can be authenticated.
If your company employs a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) policy, make sure each device has a firewall and antivirus software installed on it. It’s also good practice to restrict employees from being able to connect unknown external hardware, such as portable USB flash drives, to any company device.
Enterprises use VPNs to ensure secure connections for remote workers. A VPN acts as a middleman between a device and the internet – the website interacts with the VPN server which communicates with the device. Since this interaction is encrypted, nobody can see what data is shared online. By not requiring a VPN, enterprises are more vulnerable to security risks.
To ensure employees understand the importance of cybersecurity – in and out of the office, it’s essential for IT and other leaders to drive home the significance of data privacy and protection. Employees must be able to understand why it’s important, how it can impact them, and what steps they must follow to prevent a breach. Your people need to be comfortable recognising and reporting threats.
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