Mobility keeps growing in the healthcare industry and professionals increasingly receive, store, manipulate and transmit patients clinical information using mobile devices.
Each smartphone, tablet, and application is an access-point to hospitals, laboratories, etc. systems information, weakening the safety of sensitive data it manipulates.
Mobile apps are now on top of our digital consumption and they process data from millions of users all around the globe every day. The growing request of renewal and immediacy pushes organizations to create applications at a very fast pace, leaving behind the security tests.
Applications have won mobile, that’s no longer news. As most organizations leverage mobile apps to enhance their users’ online experience, the whole mobile ecosystem is evolving accordingly. Cybercriminals and greedy individuals see in applications a surface to make money out of. Governments see in this surface a big risk for data privacy. Users trust in companies’ capacity to keep their information safe.
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.
