It used to happen all the time. People actually carried a work phone and a personal phone. There used to be a real cost to how companies and their employees used their digital devices. Now, with inexpensive and unlimited use cellular plans, the financial concerns of using a personal device […]
NDB, part of Australia’s Privacy Act of 1988, introduced an obligation to notify individuals whose personal information is involved in a data breach that is likely to result in serious harm. The legislation applies to all businesses carried on in Australia that collect or hold personal information in Australia. Given […]
In my first blog, I discussed why mobile devices are the likely choice for savvy attackers since they typically have no endpoint protection. Let’s understand what is on the device and how that can impact an enterprise/organization. The goal of an attacker that is targeting your organization, is not to […]
A new WhatsApp vulnerability has attracted the attention of the press and security professionals around the world. Zimperium zLabs will be creating a detailed blog soon, but we wanted to provide our readers with preliminary information now. What follows is a quick summary of the vulnerability. It has been rumored […]
According to The Wall Street Journal’s article Apple Loses Bid to End App Antitrust Case in Supreme Court, “Consumers can sue Apple Inc. for forcing them to buy apps exclusively from the tech giant, the Supreme Court ruled Monday, threatening billions of dollars in revenue that the company is counting […]
GDPR sets guidelines for the collection and processing of personal information of individuals within the European Union (EU). Given the widespread adoption of mobile devices and applications, including those provided to consumers containing or processing personally identifiable information (PII), it is vital that organization’s mobile devices are GDPR compliant – […]
Cybersecurity compromises are commonplace in the news, but rarely is it cited the compromise involved a mobile device. Attribution typically falls to vulnerabilities, social engineering, or data left in the open. With no mention of mobile devices, the perception is mobile devices are secure. In other words, there’s no smoke, […]
First in a series of four blogs on mobile device security Mobile devices – used today for everything from corporate and personal email access to tools used for company production – are very powerful computers. In fact, over the past several years, the rate of accessing the Internet via mobile devices has […]
HIPAA provides data privacy and security provisions for safeguarding medical information. Mobile devices and applications are increasingly being used to store and present patient data to doctors and patients. It’s vital to ensure your organization’s mobile devices are HIPAA compliant—just as your personal computers and servers are. Of note, fines […]
The challenge with explaining something new is making that new thing relatable to something someone else already knows and understands. This is why the definition of endpoint security is so often misunderstood or mislabeled. Many compare endpoint security to antivirus protection because it is the easiest way to explain the […]