Many thanks

Ian

Interestingly, about a month ago Dexterra briefed a well-known security analyst (no, not from Burton Group) who described as “overkill” the two factor authentication security precautions we created for mobile devices in the enterprise. His rationale was that despite all the hype about mobile security, there just haven’t been that many attacks. I’m curious as to when he thinks it becomes okay to be concerned about vulnerabilities on mobile devices such as smartphones. Just imagine the conversation as a CIO of a bank or securities brokerage explains to the CEO on the day the company is hit by the first big mobile malware attack that he didn’t deploy a mobile security solution because up to that point there didn’t seem to be enough malware attacks to justify the expense.

Security has long been the oxygen issue in enterprise IT systems; if it isn’t secure then it isn’t ready for the enterprise. No IT manager thinks it’s okay risk harm to data or devices simply because there has only been a few malware attacks, or the attacks up to now haven’t been that malicious. There are mobile security precautions that can be taken, and enterprises must use them and stay on guard. We may not know the form of the first malware attack to truly harm the enterprise, but we can be reasonably sure someone, somewhere is working on it right now.

Benjamin Wesson, Dexterra