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Although the use of applications has steadily increased, the difference in the ways that web and mobile applications are protected is not widely understood. Many companies that have been using security tools for their web application may feel that moving these security tools to mobile may be difficult, but it isn't.
Guardsquare, the mobile application security platform, announced the launch of ThreatCast, a cloud-based mobile application threat intelligence expansion to its platform. ThreatCast delivers a single dashboard interface to threat intelligence from Guardsquare's cutting-edge products for layered mobile app security-DexGuard for Android and iXGuard for iOS. With a multi-layered approach to application protection and a mobile security console, ThreatCast provides all the tools needed to assess threats in real time and the intelligence to protect mobile applications against suspicious activities and malicious users.
Cybereason Mobile MDR gives enterprises a managed solution that will detect and prevent suspicious activity on mobile devices, while through Cybereason Mobile it provides access to a team of iOS and Android analysts, 24x7x365, for efficient discovery, triaging and mitigation of mobile incidents. "Cybereason Mobile," Cybereason's Maor Franco told SecurityWeek, "Can be configured to enforce preventative actions when a new threat is identified to stop the spread of malware across the enterprise, using mobile as a way into the network. In this case, mobile is even riskier. The attacker doesn't require a back door in the network when using the infected mobile device to enter through the front door."
The DHS is partnering with BlueRISC Inc to develop Cloud-based Root-of-Trust technology to keep agency email separate and secure on corporate-owned, personally enabled devices, even when the user operates personal email from the same device. "The EPRIVO Enterprise 2.0 email system ensures the confidentiality of email in transit, in cloud storage at an email service provider, and when stored on the mobile device, providing both physical and cryptographically based protections," said Kris Carver, BlueRISC Technical Director.
Cohesity announced a mobile app that gives busy IT staff a simple way to manage all of their Cohesity clusters right from the palm of their hand. The Cohesity Helios mobile app empowers IT staff to monitor the health and performance of their Cohesity infrastructure, easily manage support cases, and get alerts about anomalies, including potential ransomware attacks to their production environment, while on the go.
Syrian-linked hackers recently switched to COVID-19-themed lures as part of a long-running surveillance campaign, Lookout security researchers reveal. Supposedly active since January 2018, the campaign targets Arabic-speaking users with tens of Android applications, none of which is available in the official Google Play Store.
"What we are seeing is a heroic undertaking by organizations to quickly and efficiently provide security for an unexpected rise in a remote, mobile workforce that will permanently change the way they operate," said SonicWall President and CEO Bill Conner. The platform delivers seamless protection that stops the most evasive cyberattacks across endless exposure points and increasingly remote, mobile and cloud-enabled workforces.
Mavenir, the industry's only end-to-end cloud-native network software provider for Communications Service Providers, announced that it has successfully deployed its next-generation voice and messaging solution as part of Rakuten Mobile's communication app, Rakuten Link. Rakuten Link is a communication platform based on the GSMA RCS standards.
Governments worldwide have released COVID-19 mobile apps to provide citizens with useful information and, in some cases, to track individuals in an effort to contain the coronavirus outbreak. An analysis of dozens of nation and government-sponsored mobile applications for Android released to help with the current COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the existence of privacy risks, vulnerabilities and backdoors, ZeroFOX says in a post highlighting three of the analyzed apps.
A team of cybersecurity researchers has discovered that a large number of mobile apps contain hardcoded secrets allowing others to access private data or block content provided by users. The study's findings: that the apps on mobile phones might have hidden or harmful behaviors about which end users know little to nothing, said Zhiqiang Lin, an associate professor of computer science and engineering at The Ohio State University and senior author of the study.