MobileIron unveils mobile phishing protection for iOS, Android devices

KUALA LUMPUR, July 9 -- MobileIron, the mobile-centric security platform for Everywhere Enterprise has announced multi-vector mobile phishing protection for iOS and Android devices to help organisations defend against one of the top cybersecurity threats.

MobileIron Threat Defense (MTD) now offers on-device and cloud-based phishing URL database lookup to detect and remediate phishing attacks across all mobile threat vectors, including text and SMS messages, instant messages, social media and other modes of communication, beyond just corporate email.

Verizon’s 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report found that credential theft and social attacks such as phishing cause the majority of breaches, with almost one-quarter (22 per cent) of all data breaches involving phishing specifically.

Credentials were the most common attribute compromised in phishing attacks, although many other data types were also well represented, according to a statement.

Built on MobileIron’s leading unified endpoint management (UEM) product, MTD offers immediate, on-device phishing protection, whereby no end user action is required to deploy MTD on mobile devices that are enrolled in MobileIron’s UEM client as this is remotely managed by IT departments.

As a result, organisations can achieve 100 per cent user adoption, without impacting productivity. MobileIron is the only solution in the market that can automatically deploy mobile threat protection without users needing to take any action.

Organisations can choose whether to expand MTD’s multi-vector phishing protection to include cloud-based phishing URL database lookup. This enables organisations to control the balance between security and user privacy.

MobileIron’s multi-vector phishing protection is now available on iOS devices. These capabilities will extend to Android devices soon.

-- BERNAMA