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No.1 Wangzhuang Rd, Haidian, Beijing, PRC
Focusing on information security for 20 years,making communication safer.
Today consumers want to use more than ever mobile applications for everything from banking to travelling to shopping. In this context of ever growing cyber-attacks and increasingly connected mobile, social media and cloud services, enterprises IT security must evolve security programs to adapt to these new forces.
These devices and applications know where we are, who we were there with, and when we are doing what! We also use them to make phone calls, take pictures, and even video conferencing. To hackers, access to this information can be very valuable.
Today, employees want access to all their apps from any mobile device, including their own personal devices. Modern mobile apps have expanded beyond conventional tools and use cases such as mobile email, calendar and contact management.
Gartner, Inc predicts/suggests:
The following insights are extracted from “Internet of Things Study 2015, Volume I by Evans Data Corporation”:
More employees than ever are demanding access to applications and data that help them achieve maximum productivity outside the office; moreover mobile devices like smartphones and tablets offer new mobility and flexibility for people and IT. But the escalating reliance upon mobile computing has introduced many new security risks hence satisfying mobility requirements is becoming more challenging. For instance, allowing users to access all their apps and data from untrusted devices and unpredictable locations raises significant security concerns and also pose new challenges for information security and privacy.
In most case, to do significant damage in the mobile world, malware would need to act on devices that have been altered at an administrative level. End-users practices like ‘jailbreaking’ for iOS or ‘rooting’ for Android devices escalate the user’s privileges on the device, effectively turning a user into an administrator allowing users to access certain device resources that are normally inaccessible ( in most cases performed deliberately by users), but they also put data in danger. This is because they remove app-specific protections and the safe ‘sandbox’ provided by the operating system allowing malware to be easily downloaded to the device and being open to all sorts of malicious actions, including extraction of enterprise data. The ‘Rooted’ or ‘jailbroken’ mobile devices also become prone to brute force attacks on passcodes.
Mobile applications are changing the way business is done today, offering instant access to services for end-users. As enterprise employees download from app stores and use mobile applications that can access enterprise assets or perform business functions, IT security must evolve security programs to adapt to new forces like cloud, mobile communications and social media. This is because these applications are exposed to attacks and violations of enterprise security policies.
Enterprises that embrace mobile computing and bring your own device (BYOD) strategies are vulnerable to security breaches unless they adopt methods and technologies for mobile application security testing and risk assurance.
Most enterprises are inexperienced in mobile application security, even when application security testing is undertaken; it is often done casually by developers who are mostly concerned with the functionality of applications, not their security. Attackers are taking advantage of this and the many complexities created by the mobile ecosystem to exploit vulnerabilities, resulting in sophisticated fraud schemes and theft of sensitive data.
In this article we argue that the best defense mechanism for mobile security is to keep mobile devices fixed in a safe configuration and follow a mobile device management (MDM) policy or an enterprise mobility management baseline for all mobile devices. Meanwhile, IT security leaders also need to use network access control methods to deny enterprise connections for devices that exhibit potentially suspicious activity and deploy strong identity authentication mechanisms to prevent possible attacks on the core network infrastructure.
Today, a majority of companies are concerned about loss of and unauthorized access to corporate data; therefore use of encryption is mandatory as risk control measure for mobile devices. LONGMAI leverages its deep understanding of authentication and mobile technology to deliver trusted and proven solutions while addressing customers’ need for mobility.
LONGMAI mToken ecosystem of cryptographic modules support PKI certificate storage used for mobile-based identity and data management (incl. signing/encrypting of email, PDF documents, MS office files, and software applications, as well as VPN and web-based SSL).
The portfolio consists of cryptographic modules meeting industry compliance requirements to ensure secure network authentication, communication encryption and protect sensitive information both on the network and in wireless terminals.
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Established in 2003, Century LONGMAI Technology Co., Ltd is one of the most leading digital security device vendors in China with extended experience in developing latest generation of digital security solutions and products for secure information access and transmission across multiple media. LONGMAIsolutions and products are dedicated to help customers and their end-users build safe, efficient and sustainable networks and are widely used by mobile network operators, financial institutions, Governments, Retailers, Transport authorities, software developers and system integrators.
