Security News > 2021 > September > How to protect the corporate network from spyware

Nowadays, how does one separate employees' smartphones from the corporate network when they are used for multi-factor authentication and reading work emails? The internal to external network boundaries have become blurry.

There are a range of security policies for dealing with users' smartphones, from the most restrictive approach - no smartphone access allowed - to an open approach that allows personal phones to connect to the internal corporate network.

So how do we stop smartphones used by people to communicate with coworkers from becoming an attack vector to the corporate network?

If a potential victim knows what to look for, like a suspicious link from an unknown sender, they will likely identify it as malicious and protect themselves and the corporate network.

Make any one of the recent articles on the Pegasus spyware required reading to use their phone on the corporate network.

Some recommend only allowing non-rooted or non-jailbroken phones access to the corporate network.

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