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IT’S NOT ABOUT YOUMobile security in 2016
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Sam BakkenContent Marketing Manager@skbakken
● 7+ years marketing cybersecurity
solutions
● Managing Editor, 2014 & 2015 Trustwave
Global Security Report
Email: sbakken@nowsecure.com
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Contents
● It ain’t about you
● Pressing issues
● Leaky / risky apps
● Mobile fragmentation
● What do you need to do?
● Questions
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Typical security defenses fail in mobile settings because they protect boundaries rather than the information itself, and mobile users do not respect traditional boundaries.
Gartner: https://www.gartner.com/doc/3158326
You’ve lost control of the perimeter.
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Pressing issues
● Dual-use devices (bring-your-own-device)
● Lack of administrative access and visibility
● Malware vs. legitimate leaky/risky apps
● Complex ecosystem of vendors
○ Fragmentation
○ Updates are slow, if they come at all
In mobile security
Malware
Legitimate apps that leak
sensitive data
Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know
[The] market is fragmented, with multiple makers… each with a role in security but often lacking any sense of responsibility for it.
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Announcements from Google last week
65 billion 600Apps downloaded from the Google Play store in
the past year
Android smartphone models launched in the
past year
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The more popular an app (determined by downloads), the more likely it is to include a security flaw
1M-5MDownloads
5M-10MDownloads
37%
46%
50%
100K-500KDownloads
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We kill people based on metadata.
General Michael Hayden, former director of the NSA and CIA
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The value of even seemingly trivial data
PNAS Evaluating the privacy properties of telephone metadata
“We kill people based on metadata”
General Michael Hayden, former director of the NSA and CIA
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Android fragmentation as of August 2015
Android Fragmentation Visualized (August 2015)
24,093DISTINCT DEVICES
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Distribution of Android versions from NowSecure dataset
Android Years old Users
4.2.2 2.95 3%
4.3 2.50 6%
4.4.2 2.12 42%
4.4.4 1.59 4%
5.0 1.19 7%
5.0.1 1.14 7%
5.0.2 1.09 6%
5.1 0.87 3%
5.1.1 0.76 19%
6.0.1 0.12 3%
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Prevalence of iOS versions from NowSecure Dataset
iOS Years old Percentage
7.1.2 1.56 3%
8.3 0.79 6%
8.4 0.56 4%
8.4.1 0.44 4%
9.1 0.25 6%
9.2 0.12 71%
9.2.1 0.01 6%
So what can you do about it?
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Where does mobile risk originate?
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A simple formula for mobile security
Vet apps to ensure they don’t exceed your risk threshold
+Make sure apps are installed on
healthy endpoints
Secure apps on healthy endpoints
Learn more about mobile endpoint security
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Data you need to reduce uncertainty and increase visibilityWhat do you know, and what do you not know
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What devices do employees use?
What OSs run on those devices?
What vulnerabilities exist within those OSs?
What apps do employees install on their devices?
How risky or leaky are those apps?
What destinations does your data travel to and is it encrypted?
Let’s talk
sbakken@nowsecure.com+1 312.878.1100
@skbakken
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