FEATURE: MOBILE SECURITY
and remediates phishing attacks across all
threat vectors, beyond just corporate email,
while empowering employees everywhere
to be productive,” said Foster.
Built on MobileIron’s leading unified
endpoint management (UEM) product,
MTD offers immediate, on-device phishing
protection. There is no end-user action
required to deploy MTD on mobile devices
that are enrolled in MobileIron’s UEM
client; this is remotely managed by IT
departments. As a result, organisations
can achieve 100% user adoption, without
impacting productivity. MobileIron is
the only solution on the market that
can automatically deploy mobile threat
protection without users needing to take
any action. This is critical because if security
gets in the way of productivity, users will
find a way around it.
“Organisations urgently need to bolster their
anti-phishing technical controls, without
impacting end-user productivity,” said
Phil Hochmuth, Program Vice President,
Enterprise Mobility, IDC. “Phishing
attacks are at an all-time high, with
hackers capitalising on people’s fears and
using Coronavirus-themed messages to
deceive victims. In addition to conducting
mandatory security awareness training,
companies should enrol employee devices
in a UEM platform and implement mobile
threat defence capabilities to effectively
defend against mobile phishing attacks.
And organisations should take UX very
seriously when evaluating mobile security
solutions, as a seamless user experience is
critical to success.”
MobileIron’s recent Trouble at the Top
study revealed that C-suite executives often
feel frustrated by security protocols and
request to bypass them, despite being highly
targeted by cyberattacks, including phishing
attacks. The study also found that 60% of
IT decision-makers believe that phishing is
the most significant mobile security threat
faced by their organisation. With MTD,
organisations can ensure seamless and
continuous on-device phishing protection
for employees everywhere – even on devices
without Internet connectivity.
Organisations can choose whether to
expand MTD’s multi-vector phishing
protection to include cloud-based phishing
URL database lookup. This enables
organisations to control the balance
between security and user privacy. MTD
also enables organisations to improve their
overall security posture and comply with
regulatory requirements.
To further secure their digital workplaces
and reduce the risk of breaches,
organisations can implement MobileIron
zero sign-on for secure and passwordless
authentication to enterprise cloud services.
By leveraging mobile device authentication
with biometric-based access, organisations
can eliminate passwords, which are the
primary point of compromise in
phishing attacks. •
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