Cybersecurity experts are unanimous, mobile apps are hackers’ preferred vector to exfiltrate valuable data from mobile devices. Yet, the flexibility they offer makes them irreplaceable for both work and personal usages. Today, companies cannot afford to forbid public apps usages to their collaborators, even in the most sensitive industries. However, it doesn’t mean they should turn a blind eye to app-related risks.
Needless to emphasize that applications stand at the very heart of mobile usages. Except for very specific business cases, mobile workers require flexibility in their apps usage and have to be free to download, on top of the provided set of corporate applications, any other application they might need. In addition, the democratization of BYOD configurations makes no question of the aforementioned.
One thing is certain: cloning an application is a child’s play for cyber-criminals.
Fake apps (or clones) are Android or iOS mobile applications that mimic to some extend the look and features of an official app while hiding malicious, intrusive or lucrative activities.
Workers are undeniably mobile with 80% of corporate tasks to take place on mobile devices in 20201. With 77% of the digital traffic2 coming from smartphones and tablets, mobile protection comes as a central piece of the information security strategy of companies.
The advent of mobility drew a new paradigm where security gates have to be relocated beyond the enterprise perimeter. In that framework, legacy security practices are falling short to address a landscape characterized by a plethora and dynamicity of threats.
System and application updates always seem to pop up at less than timely moments, and most of us postpone them without second thoughts, for days, weeks, months… However, these updates represent an essential piece of systems’ stability and safety, as they include functionality enhancements and patches to security holes.