The increase of corporate devices and BYOD policies means more security risks with new devices, apps, and the need for mobile app security testing. The benefit of remote work and teleconferencing software has made it easier to take part in meetings and do work.

The increased demand for mobility had lead to flexible BYOD policies for employees. Now apps with questionable origins and security get on to the company’s network, creating Shadow IT, which poses a severe threat to the integrity of an organisation’s security. BYOD policies introduce a fallible human element. Still, it is not practical to forbid employees from bringing their own mobile devices to the office and doing so would lower satisfaction for employees.

Network monitoring for possible threats, creating and implementing BYOD policies, making a list of whitelisted apps, enforcing mobile app security testing and educating and training will help to combat these dangers.

Spend on Mobile App Security Testing

With high costs for developing apps there is often minimal budget to do a mobile app security test. App vulnerabilities in turn create easy grounds of attacks. The Ponemon Institute in its IBM report claims $34 million is spent on mobile application development and only 6 percent of this is spent on mobile security.

Companies need to invest in a good mobile app security testing solution to ensure that all apps used within the company network are secure.

The truth is that majority of the security issues (44.2 percent) result from mobile apps. Besides apps, mobile devices also face threats of network exploits, web browser exploits, drive-by downloads, physical threats of loss or theft, a serious contrast to the amount of time put in to patching web browsers and operating systems.

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