American businesses have learned the hard way that they should be paying more attention to hardening their employees' mobile devices. There has been a drastic increase in the amount of malware, phishing, network breaches, and cyberattacks in general since the COVID-19 pandemic began in early 2020, and many of them were related to the large number of employees working remotely.
As Tony Cole, chief technology officer at Attivo Networks, once said, "If you have sensitive data, build a program to ensure it's as secure as possible and mandate everyone to stay within the bounds of the program." There's no one-size-fits-all product to secure an enterprise's mobile devices; rather, the one critical element to a secure mobile environment is to create a comprehensive security plan and then have systems in place to ensure mandatory compliance.
Building a Mobile Security ProgramSpending IT money without an extensive plan is a waste of resources, plain and simple. Companies need to define their mobile program by figuring out exactly what they need to accomplish as well as what the intended scope is. However, it's important to integrate security planning into each aspect of the mobile program; too often, security is added on as an afterthought. Then everyone wonders why it doesn't sync well with the rest of the program.
If an organization is trying to build a good mobile program, it needs to be thinking about security. This extends beyond just picking out a good mobile device management platform o ..
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