What steps can individuals and businesses take to make their smartphones more secure? INTERACTIVE SESSION: TECHNOLOGYBYOD: A Security Nightmare?share files. There are also many instances whereemployees are using Dropbox to store and exchangefiles without their employers' approval. In early 2015Dropbox had to patch a security flaw that allowedcyberattackers to steal new information uploadedto accounts through compromised third-party appsthat work with Dropbox services on Android devices.There's very little a company can do to preventemployees who are allowed to use their smartphonesfrom downloading corporate data so they can workon those data remotely.Text messaging and other mobile messaging tech-nologies are being used to deliver all kinds of scamcampaigns, such as adult content and rogue phar-macy, phishing, and banking scams, and text mes-sages have been a propagation medium for TrojanBring your own device has become a huge trend,with half of employees with mobile computing toolsat workplaces worldwide using their own devices.This figure is expected to increase even more in theyears to come. But while use of the iPhone, iPad, andother mobile computing devices in the workplaceis growing, so are security problems. Quite a fewsecurity experts believe that smartphones and othermobile devices now pose one of the most serioussecurity threats for organizations today.Whether mobile devices are company-assigned oremployee-owned, they are opening up new avenuesfor accessing corporate data that need to be closelymonitored and protected. Sensitive data on mobiledevices travel, both physically and electronically,from the office to home and possibly other off-sitelocations. According to a February 2016 PonemonInstitute study of 588 U.S. IT and security profession-als, 67 percent of those surveyed reported that it wascertain or likely that an employee's mobile accessto confidential corporate data had resulted in a databreach. Unfortunately, only 41 percent of respon-dents said their companies had policies for accessingcorporate data from mobile devices.More than half of security breaches occur whendevices are lost or stolen. That puts all of the per-sonal and corporate data stored on the device, as wellas access to corporate data on remote servers, at risk.Physical access to mobile devices may be a greaterthreat than hacking into a network because lesseffort is required to gain entry. Experienced attack-ers can easily circumvent passwords or locks onmobile devices or access encrypted data. Moreover,many smartphone users leave their phones totallyunprotected to begin with or fail to keep the securityfeatures of their devices up-to-date. In the Websenseand the Ponemon Institute's Global Study on Mobil-ity Risks, 59 percent of respondents reported thatemployees circumvented or disabled security fea-tures such as passwords and key locks.Another worry today is large-scale data leakagecaused by use of cloud computing services. Employ-ees are increasingly using public cloud services suchas Google Drive or Dropbox for file sharing and col-laboration. Valiant Entertainment, Cenoric Projects,horses and worms. A malicious source is now ableto send a text message that will open in a mobilebrowser by default, which can be readily utilized toexploit the recipient.To date, deliberate hacker attacks on mobiledevices have been limited in scope and impact,but this situation is worsening. Android is now theworld's most popular operating system for mobiledevices with 81 percent of the global market, andmost mobile malware is targeted at the Android plat-form. When corporate and personal data are storedon the same device, mobile malware unknowinglyinstalled by the user could find its way onto the cor-porate network.Apple uses a closed "walled garden" model formanaging its apps and reviews each one beforereleasing it on its App Store. Android applica-tion security has been weaker than that for Appledevices, but it is improving. Android applicationsecurity uses sandboxing, which confines apps, mini-mizing their ability to affect one another or manipu-late device features without user permission. Googleremoves any apps that break its rules against mali-cious activity from Google Play, its digital distribu-tion platform that serves as the official app store forthe Android operating system. Google also vets thebackgrounds of developers. Recent Android securityenhancements include assigning varying levels oftrust to each app, dictating what kind of data an appcan access inside its confined domain, and providinga more robust way to store cryptographic credentialsVita Coco, and BCBGMAXAZRIAGROUP are amongthe companies allowing employees and freelancecontractors to use Dropbox for Business to post andused to access sensitive information and resources.

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