by cschroed | Aug 28, 2021 | Mobile App Security
Here at App47, we write about mobile app security a lot. And for good reason: while the popularity of mobile apps and devices has had a tremendous impact on productivity in and out of the office, those same devices and apps are also an ever-growing threat vector for...
by cschroed | Aug 12, 2021 | Mobile App Security
We say it here on our blog all the time: the enterprise mobile app space is booming. Despite the continued growth in the space, though, developers continue to look for ways to meet the needs of their organizations while doing so in a way that protects user and company...
by cschroed | Jun 18, 2021 | Mobile App Security
According to the authors of a recent study, nearly 90% of the more than 20,000 mobile health apps evaluated in the study have easy access to proprietary user health data such as heart rate, blood sugar levels, and other sensitive information. As author Brian Dunleavy...
by cschroed | Apr 23, 2021 | Mobile App Security
In a recent article for TechBeacon, industry insider Matthew David examines how mobility is evolving in a “pandemic-driven work-from-home” environment. In the article, he describes how, in this new work environment, it’s more necessary than ever to...
by cschroed | Mar 19, 2021 | Mobile App Security
These days, just about everything relies on the cloud in one way or another. Infrequent as they are, outages of major cloud providers—like the AWS outage last November that knocked out a number of apps and services—serve as a good reminder of just how interconnected...
by cschroed | Mar 12, 2021 | Mobile App Security
Remember GDPR? Okay… for those of you in IT, GDPR is probably impossible to forget. The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, is a sweeping set of user privacy rules that went into effect in early 2018. We wrote about the new law way back in...
by cschroed | Feb 19, 2021 | Mobile App Security
Just last week, we wrote about an emerging controversy unfolding between tech giants Google and Apple: since Apple announced that it would require app “nutrition labels” in early December 2020, Google had updated only three of its 86 iOS apps. Of course,...
by cschroed | Feb 12, 2021 | Mobile App Security
Late last year, Apple announced that it would require “nutrition labels” effective early December 2020 to help users understand what information apps collect. While many developers have complied, The Guardian reports that only one of Google’s 86 apps...
by cschroed | Nov 20, 2020 | Mobile App Security
Think that most companies have their mobile app security procedures under control? Think again. According to a new Guardsquare report, titled “Mobile Apps Aren’t Secure Enough, Despite Dev Teams’ Priorities,” some 95% of employees report room...
by cschroed | Oct 9, 2020 | Mobile App Security
According to a recent industry survey, some 80% of employees said that they do not want to return to the office full-time. As a recent article in Help Net Security notes, “the COVID-198 pandemic has clearly changed the way people work,” which has, as we...
by cschroed | Aug 14, 2020 | Enterprise Mobility, Mobile App Security
If you’ve been following our blog the last few months, you know that now is as good a time as ever to sharpen your enterprise mobility strategy. But, as Daniel Hein, writing for Mobility Management Solutions Review, notes, that doesn’t mean it’s any...
by cschroed | Jul 10, 2020 | Mobile App Security
Think you know it all about securing the mobile apps your employees and others use? Think again. As Daniel Hein explains in an article for Mobility Management Solutions Review, what you may have heard about mobile app security does not always align with the truth. In...
by cschroed | Mar 6, 2020 | Mobile App Security
Verizon’s 2020 Mobile Security Index paints a bleak picture for organizations today. According to the index–based on a survey of more than 850 professionals responsible for managing mobile devices in their respective workplaces–43% of organizations...
by cschroed | Jan 31, 2020 | Mobile App Security
What are the biggest challenges when it comes to mobile security? According to industry insider Brian Egenrieder, who spoke late last year with Enterprise Mobility Exchange, one of the biggest issues companies face is balancing productivity with security. “As...
by cschroed | Nov 21, 2019 | Mobile App Security
Mobile App Security Security is, unsurprisingly, the issue that most people in our world are worried about and focus on. (In fact, earlier this year, we devoted an entire series to issues of security and how we’re addressing them.) Of course, the security and threat...
by cschroed | Oct 14, 2019 | Mobile App Security
App Security Security threats and regulatory requirements for data protection are only growing. Earlier this year, we wrote a blog series on emerging threats and how to avoid them. In short, today’s threat landscape is ever-changing, and staying ahead of emerging...
by cschroed | Jun 20, 2019 | Mobile App Security
In case you haven’t noticed, security is always top-of-mind for us here at App47. Just a few months ago, we wrote a series here on our blog detailing emerging mobile app security threats, and what we’re doing to address them. In today’s fast-changing...
by App47 | Apr 3, 2019 | Mobile App Security
On April 3, 2019, App47 presented this webinar on the topic: Break Ties with your MDM using Advanced App Level Security. Enterprises around the world have been tied to their costly and cumbersome mobile device management (MDM) products for one reason only, Security....
by cschroed | Mar 1, 2019 | Mobile App Security
We’ve been talking about mobile app security and cloud-based app wrapping for the last couple of weeks. Well–cue scene from Frankenstein–it’s alive!!! The App47 team has been hard at work for the last couple of months getting all the pieces in...
by cschroed | Feb 15, 2019 | Mobile App Security
Last month, we kicked off our series on mobile app security with a look at where App47 is today. Our key focus there was the fact that today, folks are looking for better ways to secure their data than the MDM “sledgehammer.” We talked for a bit about...
