Is Mobile Security on Your Radar? It Should Be! | IndustryWeek
While cybersecurity breaches understandably result in data exposure, the extenuating circumstances can prove far more extensive, especially for today’s highly connected enterprise. According to the recent Verizon 2020 Mobile Security Index, a mobile security compromise in particular can have a range of other consequences such as downtime, supply chain delays, lost business, damage to reputation and regulatory fines.
“We definitely see that mobile security as a threat vector is increasing considerably with just about 40% of respondents having some type of mobile security related compromise. Within that, 66% of the organizations suffering a major compromise,” says Bryan Sartin, Executive Director of Global Security Services at Verizon. “Most of those are saying that the experience included serious lasting repercussions. That in itself is a big departure from what we’ve previously seen in mobile security. We’ve always seen mobile security related breaches few and far between. Clearly that’s changing.”