PARTNER CONTENT: We live in a mobile-centric world. Around two decades ago, our devices were clunky, monolithic handsets useful for little more than voice calls and texting. Today’s smartphones are high-powered microcomputers millions of times more powerful than the machines that first put humankind on the moon. That’s some journey. And it’s not over yet.
By the end of 2022, over 5.4 billion people globally subscribed to a mobile service, including 4.4 billion who also used the mobile internet. Smartphones are our gateway to entertainment, travel, banking, healthcare, social interaction and much more. They also keep us productive in and away from the office, by connecting to the corporate network and a myriad of cloud-based business applications.
But where there is money to be made and users to exploit, cyber-criminals won’t be far behind. They know that our devices are often less well protected than laptops and desktops, and that we use them impulsively. They also know that smartphones and tablets can be a trove of sensitive logins and a gateway to corporate data, apps and networks. One vendor detected a 51% increase in mobile malware variants between 2021 and…
