Most of the executives/ employees prefer to use smartphone for checking enterprise mail and websites. The culture of work from home (especially in circumstances like COVID-19) requires that employees connect their devices to the corporate network to perform their job from the comfort of their homes. Many organisations permit bring-your-own-device to the workplace.

In the prevailing work environment, the organisations are at the risk of cyber security threats arising from the smartphones. The executives/ senior-leadership/ key appointment holders are particularly at higher risks due to information accessible to them.

Security compromise of smartphones jeopardises privacy and exposes to financial risks. Criminals often target people through malicious Apps, phishing emails/ attachments and malicious links to make financial gains. The rogue Wi-Fi hotspots and juice-jacking socket points are setup by criminals to entrap users for information harvesting and man-in-the-middle-attack.

Mobile attacks are increasing year over year and analysis shows that that 39% enterprise attacks involved a mobile device. The contemporary preventive security measures often require human intervention and mostly depend on procedural arrangements such as hardening, patching, incident handling, etc. The human intervention introduces delay and has limited capacity to handle the volume, scale, complexity and velocity of the modern day attacks.

In the new work environment, mobiGUARD helps enterprises in mobile threat defence with its capabilities to self-monitor, self-diagnose, self-test, and self-adapt to guard against the security compromises in mobile devices.