
San Francisco, CA - May 16, 2017 - Lookout, the global leader in securing mobility, today unveiled the Mobile Risk Matrix, a framework illustrating the array of mobile risks across app, device, network, and web & content vectors, to help enterprises accurately identify, assess and secure their mobile workforce. Within the framework, Lookout provides new insights on the prevalence of enterprise mobile risks pulled from the Lookout Security Cloud, a massive data set of mobile code from existing enterprise and personal customers. In conjunction with the new framework, Lookout announced a series of new features and business solutions to increase customer security coverage across these mobile risks.
“With the rapid adoption of mobile within the enterprise, CISOs must now bring desktop-level security to a new set of risks that are specific to this evolving endpoint. The spectrum of mobile risk is designed to help enterprise CISOs understand and prioritize the security concerns they must address on mobile devices,” said Aaron Cockerill, Lookout chief strategy officer. “We understand that each CISO’s risk profile is unique based on enterprise and industry requirements, but every CISO requires visibility across the entire mobile risk spectrum. Enterprises need to understand and prioritize these risks to make simple, actionable decisions, and implement solutions that enable them to embrace mobility, with the peace of mind that their enterprise data is secure.”
The growing adoption of mobile in the enterprise has allowed for increased flexibility and productivity. However, due to this shift, mobile devices have rapidly become ground zero for a wide spectrum of risks that includes malicious targeted attacks to devices and network connections, a range of malware families, non-compliant apps that leak data, and vulnerabilities in device operating systems or apps. According to a recent Gartner report, “Security and risk management leaders face an ever-increasing assortment of security threats to multiplatform, mobile and personal devices amid increasingly chaotic work styles. (1)”
To enable CISOs to understand the spectrum of mobile risk they need to detect and protect against, Lookout has released the “The Spectrum of Mobile Risk: Understanding the full range of risks to enterprise data from mobility." This whitepaper provides enterprises with the definitive standard for measuring mobile risk with new visibility into the prevalence of threats, software vulnerabilities, and behaviors & configurations. Key insights from the new Lookout Spectrum of Mobile Risk whitepaper include:
"After seeing an uptick of mobile attacks across industries, it became clear that we would have to integrate a mobile security solution with our existing systems to protect apps and sensitive data being accessed by the thirty-thousand mobile devices in our environment," said Constantinos Amiridis, IT strategist, City of Stockholm. "We chose Lookout because the solution offers comprehensive protection against the full spectrum of mobile risks."
As companies across the globe continue to adopt mobile to increase productivity, Lookout is constantly innovating to provide customers with the most comprehensive security solution available. As of today, Lookout Mobile Endpoint Security customers will now be able to:
To provide mobile risk protection to users beyond enterprise customers, Lookout will also expand network protection to Personal Premium and Personal Premium Plus customers. The new feature, Safe Wi-Fi, will enable users to feel secure when connecting to Wi-Fi on their mobile devices, and be alerted with step-by-step instructions on what to do when a network in use is under attack. Safe Wi-Fi will be available this summer on both iOS and Android.
To learn more about Lookout Mobile Endpoint Security, visit Lookout.com.
(1) Gartner Predicts 2017: Endpoint and Mobile Security, John Girard, Dionisio Zumerle, Brian Reed, Peter Firstbrook, Bart Willemsen, 16 November 2016
Data methodology
The analyzed data came from a large global subset of Lookout personal and enterprise protected devices, and the time periods ranged between April 15, 2016 and April 16, 2017. The enterprise data includes both Android and iOS devices from financial institutions, healthcare organizations, government agencies and other industries. The personal data includes both Android and iOS devices from consumers around the globe, consisting of over 100M devices worldwide. All data was pulled anonymously, and no corporate data, networks, or systems were accessed to perform this analysis.
Lookout is a leader in endpoint and cloud security solutions. Our mission is to secure and empower our digital future in a privacy-focused world where mobility and cloud are essential to all we do for work and play. We enable consumers and employees to protect their data, and to securely stay connected without violating their privacy and trust. Lookout is trusted by millions of consumers, the largest enterprises and government agencies, and partners such as AT&T, Verizon, VMware, Vodafone, Microsoft, Google, and Apple. Headquartered in San Francisco, Lookout has offices in Amsterdam, Boston, London, Sydney, Tokyo, Toronto and Washington, D.C. To learn more, visit www.lookout.com and follow Lookout on its blog, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
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