Mobile device use opens up businesses to extra risk

Mobile devices have become an extension of our everyday lives, but if they are used to access business networks they could be exposing sensitive information to risk. A new report from Gigamon reveals that most mobile devices run an average of 60-90 applications, facilitating access to email, SaaS-based solutions, cloud storage, social networks, games, news feeds and more. This leads to an increased attack surface, with growing levels of mobile activity associated with cloud services. What this means to the hacker is that it's relatively easy to construct highly targeted phishing emails, using information freely offered up by users, in order to… [Continue Reading]