Your Mobile Devices Are Under Attack—Are You Ready?
Your employees and their mobile devices operate on the front lines of your organization’s digital perimeter—and are increasingly in the crosshairs of today’s threat actors. Yet for many enterprises, mobile security remains an overlooked blind spot, leaving a critical gap in their overall cybersecurity strategy.
Mobile endpoints differ significantly from traditional desktops and laptops. They run sandboxed operating systems like iOS and Android, rely heavily on apps and cloud services, and are constantly switching between networks—from office Wi-Fi to public hotspots and mobile data. Unlike traditional devices, they often fall outside of centralized IT control, especially in BYOD and hybrid work environments.
These differences mean mobile devices face unique risks—like smishing, app-based threats, OS vulnerabilities, and rogue Wi-Fi connections—that traditional endpoint protection tools can’t detect or manage.
The challenge isn’t just spotting these threats—it’s achieving complete visibility, real-time detection, and rapid response across every mobile device. Securing mobile devices requires a purpose-built solution that understands mobile behavior, continuously evaluates risk, and integrates seamlessly into your broader security stack.
The challenge isn’t just spotting these threats—it’s achieving complete visibility, real-time detection, and rapid response across every mobile device. Securing mobile devices requires a purpose-built solution that understands mobile behavior, continuously evaluates risk, and integrates seamlessly into your broader security stack.
It’s time to elevate mobile security to the same standard as traditional endpoints—with protection designed specifically for the mobile-first world.
Equip your team with tools that fit the challenge.
Lookout’s AI-first approach is purpose-built for the unique mobile environment, combining Mobile Endpoint Protection as the first line of defense—blocking known threats before execution—with mobile EDR as a second layer to detect and respond to sophisticated attacks that slip through.
Designed expressly for iOS and Android ecosystems, Lookout delivers the visibility, context, and control needed to transform mobile security from a gap into a core strength of your cybersecurity strategy.
Built different. Built for mobile.
Mobile endpoint protection differs significantly from traditional endpoint protection due to the unique architecture, usage patterns, and constraints of mobile devices. Here’s how:
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App-Centric Architecture
Traditional endpoint platforms, such as Windows or macOS, rely heavily on executables and files. In contrast, iOS and Android operate in an app-centric environment. Apps run in isolated sandboxes, which limits their access to system resources—but also changes how threats are delivered and executed. Mobile threats often come from malicious apps, excessive permissions, or compromised SDKs rather than from standard malware payloads.
Fragmented OS and Patch Landscape
In the desktop world, enterprises often have centralized control over OS patching. On mobile, software updates are fragmented across OS versions, device manufacturers (OEMs), and carriers. This inconsistency in patch delivery increases the window of exposure to known vulnerabilities, making Mobile Vulnerability Management (MVM) a crucial component.
Device Diversity and Management Models
Mobile environments often comprise a mix of managed, unmanaged, corporate-owned, and BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) models. This complexity makes it more challenging for IT to enforce consistent security policies, underscoring the need for solutions that work seamlessly across various ownership and management models.
User Behavior and Social Engineering Risk
Mobile users are more susceptible to phishing, smishing, and executive impersonation due to the personal nature of the device, its small screen size, and frequent use of messaging apps. Mobile Endpoint Protection must account for this increased social engineering exposure—something traditional EDR tools are not built to detect.
Privacy Constraints
Due to the dual-use nature of mobile devices (both personal and work), mobile endpoint protection must respect user privacy, avoiding invasive monitoring and ensuring data separation—especially in BYOD environments. Traditional endpoint solutions aren’t designed with this granularity.
Securing mobile endpoints requires more than repurposing desktop tools—it demands a purpose-built approach that accounts for human-layer threats, app-based risk, patch fragmentation, and privacy-by-design.
The Clear Standout
Why customers choose Lookout over Microsoft.
Mobile endpoint protection differs significantly from traditional endpoint protection due to the unique architecture, usage patterns, and constraints of mobile devices. Here’s how:
Product capabilities.
Microsoft
Lookout
Smishing (SMS Phishing) Detection & Reporting
Provides phishing protection via VPN-based web filtering but lacks the ability to detect smishing or SMS-based threats.
Identifies and blocks smishing attacks in real time, delivering detailed reporting and telemetry to security teams.
Executive Impersonation Protection
No detection or protection against executive impersonation on mobile.
Proactively detects and stops executive impersonation attempts—an advanced capability unique to Lookout’s mobile EDR.
Advanced Mobile App Risk Analysis
Offers limited app protection, only on Android. Lacks dynamic analysis and provides no visibility into iOS apps.
Conducts comprehensive static and dynamic analysis across both iOS and Android, flagging risky or malicious apps at install and runtime.
Feature Parity Across iOS and Android
Android receives more complete protection; iOS coverage is mainly limited to phishing detection.
Delivers full-featured, consistent protection across both platforms—including device, app, network, web, and social engineering threats.
Integrations & deployment.
Microsoft
Lookout
Third-Party Integration for EDR and SIEM/XDR
Limited to native integration with Microsoft tools. No support for third-party SIEM or XDR platforms. Mobile telemetry is siloed within the Microsoft Defender portal.
Offers broad integration with Microsoft tools and third-party platforms, including Splunk, IBM QRadar, Palo Alto Cortex XSOAR, and more. Mobile threat data can seamlessly feed into any SIEM/XDR to enhance investigations and accelerate response.
Broad UEM Compatibility
Only compatible with Microsoft Intune. No support for third-party UEMs.
Works with all major UEMs—including VMware Workspace ONE, MobileIron, IBM MaaS360, Citrix, and Microsoft Intune—providing deployment flexibility and ease of integration across diverse environments.
Zero-Touch Deployment Across Platforms
Requires Intune and multiple manual user actions, such as downloading the Company Portal or Authenticator apps.
Supports zero-touch and zero-click deployments on both iOS and Android—even in BYOD or unmanaged environments—ensuring rapid, frictionless coverage at scale.
Management & support.
Microsoft
Lookout
Multi-Tenancy
No native multi-tenant mobile security console. Defender is bound to Microsoft 365 tenants, limiting visibility across multiple environments.
Built-in multi-tenant support from a single console—ideal for MSSPs, global enterprises, and organizations with distributed business units.
Customizable Threat Policy & User Messaging
Policy controls are limited to what Intune allows, with minimal flexibility and no dynamic, in-app user notifications.
Offers granular policy enforcement with customizable escalation workflows and user-facing messages to drive awareness, education, and remediation.
Mobile Expertise in Customer Support
Mobile security expertise is limited. No dedicated mobile security specialists or proactive guidance on mobile threats and emerging risks.
Mobile security is our core focus. Customers benefit from dedicated mobile experts, actionable insights into global mobile threat intelligence, and a product roadmap built to stay ahead of evolving risks.
Where the others fall short.
Insufficient EDR-grade mobile visibility
While many solutions connect with SIEM or XDR tools, few deliver a continuous, in-depth stream of mobile-specific telemetry—leaving critical blind spots in threat detection and investigation.
Weakness in social engineering defense
Most tools fail to proactively detect smishing, impersonation, or other human-targeted attacks—ignoring the most exploited vulnerability: people.
Generic, non-mobile threat intelligence
Broad threat intel feeds lack mobile precision, causing delays in identifying emerging mobile threats or missing them entirely amid desktop-focused noise.
Operational complexity and vendor lock-In
Complicated deployments, fragmented consoles, and tight coupling with specific ecosystems make many solutions hard to manage—and inflexible to your needs.
Inconsistent cross-platform protection
Varying feature sets between Android, iOS, managed, and BYO devices create uneven protection and policy enforcement—forcing security teams to work harder just to cover basic ground.
Lookout is the clear choice for organizations that take mobile security seriously. While others retrofit legacy tools for mobile, we built our platform from the ground up — delivering true mobile EDR that protects against the full range of device, app, network, and phishing threats.
With real-time threat intelligence, seamless integration into your existing stack, and protection for both managed and unmanaged devices, Lookout gives you the visibility and control you need — without the gaps. Mobile is no longer a blind spot. With Lookout, it’s your strongest line of defense.
With real-time threat intelligence, seamless integration into your existing stack, and protection for both managed and unmanaged devices, Lookout gives you the visibility and control you need — without the gaps. Mobile is no longer a blind spot. With Lookout, it’s your strongest line of defense.
