Security News > 2021 > January > Many European CISOs Shift Focus to Mobile Security: Survey
A majority of chief information security officers in Europe said their cybersecurity strategy now focuses on mobile devices as a result of employees increasingly working remotely due to the pandemic, IT management and cybersecurity solutions provider Ivanti said in a report published this week.
According to Ivanti's report, which aims to promote the adoption of zero trust security strategies, 87% of CISOs said the focal point of their strategy is now mobile devices.
The biggest IT security challenges cited by respondents - during the pandemic - were the use of insecure Wi-Fi connections to access corporate assets, employees using their own devices for work, the use of unauthorized apps, the use of public clouds to access business resources, and mobile phishing attacks.
"Unfortunately, hackers are taking advantage of security gaps in the everywhere enterprise by increasingly targeting mobile devices and applications with sophisticated phishing attacks," Ivanti said in its report.
"And these mobile phishing attacks are likely to succeed, as it is very hard to verify the authenticity of links on a mobile device. The mobile user interface also makes it difficult to access and view key information, while prompting users to make fast decisions."
The survey shows that CISOs in Europe had, on average in 2020, a total IT security budget of roughly €65 million, with much of it spent on unified endpoint management solutions.