FEATURE: MOBILE SECURITY
COMPANIES URGENTLY NEED A
MOBILE THREAT DEFENCE SOLUTION
THAT DETECTS AND REMEDIATES
PHISHING ATTACKS ACROSS ALL
THREAT VECTORS.
and attachments before clicking on them,
consumers and business users are exposed
to more phishing risks than ever before.
In a mobile-first world, with remote work
becoming the norm, proactive defence
against these attacks is critical.”
MobileIron, the mobile-centric security
platform for the Everywhere Enterprise, is
also taking steps to protect people against
mobile phishing attacks.
identity,” said David Richardson, Vice
President of Product Management, Lookout.
“Cybercriminals are exploiting the ability
to socially engineer victims on their mobile
device in order to steal their credentials or
sensitive private data.”
Today, the number of people working away
from the office is at a record high. In order
to stay productive, employees have turned
to their smartphones and tablets.
Phishing has been the most commonly used
method for cybercriminals to infiltrate an
organisation and businesses have deployed
user training and email phishing security to
combat them.
But with mobile devices, phishing risks
no longer simply hide in email, but in
SMS, messaging apps and social media
platforms. In addition, with a smaller form
factor and simplified user experience,
mobile devices also make it harder to
spot the tell-tale signs of a phishing link
– enabling a higher success rate for the
cybercriminals attacking mobile compared
to desktop devices.
“Phishing has evolved into a massive
problem that expands far beyond the
traditional email bait and hook,” said Phil
Hochmuth, Program Vice President of
Enterprise Mobility at IDC. “On a small
screen and with a limited ability to vet links
The provider has announced multi-vector
mobile phishing protection for iOS and
Android devices to help organisations
defend against one of the top
cybersecurity threats.
MobileIron Threat Defense (MTD) now
offers on-device and cloud-based phishing
URL database lookup to detect and
remediate phishing attacks across all
mobile threat vectors, including text and
SMS messages, instant messages, social
media and other modes of communication,
beyond just corporate email.
Verizon’s 2020 Data Breach Investigations
Report found that credential theft and
social attacks such as phishing cause
the majority of breaches, with almost
one-quarter (22%) of all data breaches
involving phishing specifically. Credentials
were the most common attribute
compromised in phishing attacks,
although many other data types were
also well represented.
“Phishing is a simple, yet highly lucrative
method for hackers,” said Brian Foster,
SVP of Product Management, MobileIron.
“All it takes is one click on a malicious
link for a hacker to compromise a user’s
ID and password, and gain access to a
goldmine of data. Unfortunately, hackers
are exploiting enterprise security gaps amid
the COVID-19 pandemic and increasingly
targeting mobile devices and applications,
which remote workers are using more than
ever before to access corporate data.
David Richardson, Vice President of
Product Management, Lookout
“And these mobile phishing attacks are
likely to succeed, as it is very hard to verify
the authenticity of links on a mobile
device. The mobile user interface also
makes it difficult to access and view key
information, while prompting users to make
fast decisions. Companies urgently need a
mobile threat defence solution that detects
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