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Mobile security practice launched by Trustwave

Trustwave, a company specializing in network data and security solutions for businesses, has introduces a new mobile security practice designed to help enterprises embrace the concept of bring-your-own-device (BYOD). As the world becomes more acclimated to mobile technology, workers are beginning to make use of their mobile devices more frequently. Enterprises are beginning to see their employees use smartphones and tablets to conduct business, increasing the need for mobile security solutions that account for the BYOD trend.

Practice to help enterprises become more secure

The new practice from Trustwave offers compliance and risk services that are meant to make mobile devices more secure. It also offers a technology suite that provides enterprises with the solutions they need to make their data networks more secure and guard against the loss or exploitation of data. The practice also makes Trustwave’s SpiderLabs services available. SpiderLabs was developed by a dedicated team of ethical hackers and it is designed to expose the threats that exist in mobile devices and other systems.

Businesses growing more concerned over mobile security

People have become inseparable from their mobile devices, a fact that has caused some concern in the world of business. Because a growing number of people are beginning to conduct business on their mobile devices, the need for more comprehensive mobile security is becoming a serious issue. If businesses are not prepared to tackle the issues that exist in mobile security, they may find themselves exposed to dangerous risks and could become an ideal target for hackers and other malicious parties.

Digital threats gaining more attention in business

While mobile technology has proven to be a boon for many people, it has also exposed them to the risks that have long existed in the digital realm. These risks are not new, having been around since the inception of the Internet. Only recently have serious efforts been made to make mobile devices more secure against these threats, however, and mobile security is slowing gaining prominence within the world of business.

According to the recent study, the attacks on smartphones with this operating systems are rapidly rising.

NQ Mobile security solutions company has just released a report that has shown that the number of malware attacks that are occurring on devices that are based on the Android operating system significantly increased in 2012.

The report was issued on Monday and underlined the importance of smartphone protections against attacks.

The report drew attention to the fact that as the operating system becomes increasingly popular, so do the attempts to infect it from those with unethical intentions. It urged consumers using smartphones to become aware of the risks of using mobile security devices and to alter their behaviors in order to protect themselves against attacks.

The mobile security report showed that the popularity of Android does make it a malware target.

As a whole, the number of mobile security attacks that were recorded on Android smartphones were recorded to have doubled from 2011 to 2012. According to the authors of the report, this has made these devices among the most profitable cybercriminal trends. Last year the most commonly used techniques of this nature were phishing and smishing, which are those that are used in an attempt to gain use of the personal and/or financial information of the users.

Among the primary mobile security results that were noted by the report include:

• An increase of 163 percent in the instance of malware, as 65,227 new malware pieces were discovered last year, when compared to 24,794 which were discovered the year before.
• A specific target of malware of 94.8 percent toward Android devices last year. Comparatively, only 4 percent of these harmful attacks were geared specifically toward Symbian based devices.
• Of all of the mobile security malware that was discovered last year, 28 percent had been designed for the specific intention of obtaining personal and financial data from users for the purpose of profit for the attacker.

This mobile security report has supported the results of other studies that are revealing that there is a rapidly growing trend of malware issues on smartphones, as their popularity continues to grow worldwide.