Mobile devices are spreading at phenomenal rates, with more than 90 percent of people using a mobile phone and 2.3 billion accessing the web from mobile devices. However, they are very attractive targets for criminals - mobile malware grew 20 percent last year. Mobile devices are the weakest point in the enterprise IT ecosystem, providing a means for app-, device- and network-based attacks. In fact, mobile devices are the least secured aspects of cloud-based APIs. Because the flood of smartphones and tablets employees are bringing to work are typically personal, IT does not get to manage them. Employees use the devices to access confidential documents one minute and untrustworthy social apps the next. Mobile devices are tied to the individual, making spear phishing and other targeted malware attacks particularly frightening: If attackers want to get data from a company's Salesforce. com account, their easiest avenue of attack is to target the phone of the head of sales. Mobile is becoming the dominant platform for access to cloud-based computing and it requires specific protection that traditional security solutions simply don't address.
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