MOBILE SECURITY BLOG

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.

The pandemic situation requires governments to actively enjoin companies to set up remote working.

To keep up as much as possible with activities, enterprises are issuing additional corporate-owned devices or enabling BYOD usages multiplying access points to corporate data.

The Zero Trust model, first identified by the research firm Forrester, is a security approach based on the principle of not trusting any network or data access request by default, even when it comes from inside the company perimeter. Zero Trust goes beyond the identity approach which focuses on only authenticating the user. It has emerged as the most reliable way for companies to keep away cyberthreats evolving within their distant and immediate environment.

Most online transactions require a two-step authentication, and the One-Time-Password (OTP) sent by SMS is often one of those two steps. The purpose of an OTP is to prevent fraud by confirming that the person making the transaction and the credit card owner are one and the same. To do so, a temporary code is automatically sent by SMS to the phone number associated with the bank account used.