Displaying items by tag: Mobile security

GUEST OPINION: Mobile-powered initiatives are critical to profitability, productivity and competitiveness. Mobile devices and apps are how customers interact with organisations and how employees access resources, collaborate and work.

Mobile security specialist Appdome has launched the Mobile App Defense Project, a community program aimed at improving mobile DevSecOps.

COMPANY NEWS: Appdome, the one-stop shop for mobile app defence, today announced a unique collaboration with NetSPI, the global leader in offensive security as part of its launch of Appdome's new Mobile App Defense Project, a community program aimed at improving mobile DevSecOps for everyone. This collaboration aims to create a more secure mobile app economy, raise the bar on mobile app defence and provide rapid, validated, continuous cyber and anti-fraud solutions for all mobile applications globally.

GUEST OPINION: Governments and local councils bear a responsibility to protect residents not only on the street, but also in the digital world.

COMPANY NEWS: Zimperium, the leading mobile security solution for endpoints and apps, today announced the launch of the Zimperium Mobile-First Security Platform.

Jamf Executive Threat Protection for mobile devices goes beyond the protection offered by iOS 16's Lockdown mode to provide visibility into attacks that target high-value users such as government officials, journalists, and high-ranking employees.

Mobile trojan capable of malicious actions including reading, writing and deleting files, recording sound, and setting new application permissions, discovered in Middle East

COMPANY NEWS: Zimperium, the only mobile security platform purpose-built for enterprise environments, published details of a newly-discovered Android spyware family dubbed RatMilad. The Zimperium zLabs research team uncovered the RatMilad spyware sample after a failed infection of an enterprise device in the Middle East protected by Zimperium’s on-device machine-learning malware engine.

COMPANY NEWS: Jamf, the standard in Apple Enterprise Management, has announced it signed a definitive agreement to acquire ZecOps, a leader in mobile detection and response.

Canberra-based provider of web filtering, reporting and mobile security for schools and enterprises ContentKeeper has been acquired by European-owned Impero Software.

ESET, a provider of cybersecurity, has been named as a Challenger in the Omdia Market Radar – Mobile Security Management Solutions report.

Attackers are preying on users' assumption that legitimate app stores protect them from security issues, a security firm claims.

Global SaaS and enterprise mobile security vendor Bitglass has beefed up its leadership team with the appointment of new vice presidents of worldwide channels and business development.

Cloud access security broker Bitglass has sealed an agreement to offer clients of Enosys a complete CASB solution with zero-day data and threat protection for any app or device – whether managed or unmanaged.

SaaS and enterprise mobile security vendor Bitglass has appointed Westcon-Comstor as the company’s first value-added distributor in New Zealand.

SaaS and enterprise mobile security vendor Bitglass has appointed David Shephard as its new vice-president of Sales for Asia Pacific and Japan as part of a move to accelerate global expansion.

The importance of enterprise mobility IT security is something most organisations overlook, but it’s one of the most important policies that should be implemented.

A new report on the global threats posed by cyber attacks has found that the prevalence of mobile malware remained steady from the fourth quarter 2016 to the first quarter of this year, with about 20% of organisations detecting the malware.

Australians are concerned about mobile security, but the majority aren’t doing enough about it, according to research which reveals that 40% have been victim to a mobile security breach.

Many organisations are ill-prepared to defend against mobile and IoT application security threats, according to a study from the Ponemon Institute, IBM Security and application protection provider Arxan Technologies, which shows that 60% of organisations have already experienced a data breach caused by an insecure mobile app.

While Android phones and tablets are the primary mobile attack vector, iOS is more than ever a target – Symantec found nine new iOS threat families back in 2015.