Mobile Security: Solutions for the New Age Global Corporate
The technology oriented business environment has a widely networked IT infrastructure, loaded with cloud computing services and world-class software applications. However, with globalization paving way for technology growth, organizations are faced with challenges of providing security to organization’s mission critical information while providing an easy access to the same.
Though technological innovations have helped organizations meet the challenges of enabling the mobile workforce with anytime anywhere access to the corporate data and network through devices such as laptops and smartphones, the security of the vital data lurks largely on these organizations as their network is pushed beyond boundaries. The use of mobile security solutions helps organizations face these issues.
However, with security issues becoming a continuous challenge for the software development teams, the use of automated security and penetration testing tools in the software development lifecycle, does not give much relief from the security vulnerabilities. Thus organizations look for a more holistic framework that will facilitate enterprises with data protection and application security.
With mobile computing becoming a reality, the loss of mission critical data and customer data may lead to disastrous results. Implementing security policies and educating the workforce to use secure application development methodologies will help organizations in managing the risks. Leading IT organizations help enterprises identify and protect data by building a security framework with effective design strategies and secure software security patterns ensuring application security. Besides the errors in the process of application development, design flaws, protocol failures and well as failure of mobile infra components can drastically impact the security status. Thus mobile security solutions with a holistic view of the situations will facilitate handling of security breaches.
The service providers work out mobile security to help organizations deploy secure mobile applications on various platforms. This enables mobility to the global workforce. These services are designed with a sole the purpose of providing the clientele with secure data storage, and facilitating secure data deployment through various protocols while reducing software re-engineering and compliance costs.
The mobile security services include
- Mobile application security that help the enterprises check for any vulnerabilities in mobile applications through application penetration testing, secure code review reverse engineering etc.
- Mobile application store security for security assessment of internal apps, external apps device operating systems etc.
- Mobile payment and banking security- Security assessment of mobile payment & banking applications
- Application security: Security assessment for various applications, gateways, application server frameworks, log analysis and compliance pre-audit.
- Mobile data management security: facilitates enterprise data fragmentation, control of access to critical business data and business applications usage. This also enables effective mobile content management, data storage encryption and authentication for fragmentized data.
- Mobile Device Security: through a proper review of the mobile device’s security configuration, the service providers work out customized device security policies and user awareness programs for security assessment of the mobile platforms.
The mobile security services assist the organizations in assessing and securing their mobile applications, and Mobile devices.
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