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FEATURE: MOBILE MALWARE
Introducing
a new era of
cyber threats
Mobile malware is an
increasingly prominent
challenge to organisations;
industry experts discuss why
mobile devices are so appealing
to attackers and how to
safeguard against this new era
of threats.
M
alware is a word that strikes fear into the hearts
of users of digital devices. Many of us associate it
with attacks on networks or individual computers.
It’s easy to forget that mobiles can also come
under attack from malicious software. Intelligent
CIO spoke to: Anvee Alderton, Channel Manager
for southern Africa, TrendMicro; Morey Haber, VP of Technology,
BeyondTrust; Michael Morton, Mobile Security Specialist, Securicom;
Riaan Badenhorst, General Manager, Kaspersky Lab; Erhard Brand,
Product Owner, Entersekt; and Ian Jansen van Rensburg, Senior
Manager: Systems Engineering, VMware, about the nature of the threat
mobile users face from malware.
Why mobile?
As Morey Haber, VP of Technology at BeyondTrust, points out: “Mobile
device malware is appealing to cybercriminals because the attack
does not require you to penetrate an organisation’s perimeter or cloud
resources directly. All an attacker needs to know is the phone number
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