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Organizations need to remain protected from incursions through the use of mobile technologies. When users join a network, their devices can communicate without requiring an administrator or IT department to approve such communication. There comes the point where users begin trusting each other and become mindless followers who use applications with little security considerations and compromise the integrity of an organization's systems.
Mobile devices bring new challenges to traditional network security while providing new opportunities. Traditional network security typically relies on perimeter controls (firewalls) and host-based defenses to properly secure data and assets. Mobile devices only fall under this perimeter scanning model because they are often used outside corporate networks. This creates a significant gap in security defenses, as mobile devices are usually placed in the inter-network between corporate and remote locations, leading to breaches and exposure of confidential data.
Although several mobile security solutions are available on the market today, they have many drawbacks: either they cannot offer complete protection for all mobile devices, or their ability to protect is limited by factors such as device type, OS version, or Java version. With so many different types of mobile devices being used within an organization and so many limitations on every kind of smartphone or tablet, securing all varieties with a single solution is difficult.