New Solution Protects Mobile Devices Without Compromising User Experience
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Skycure, a mobile security software company, today introduced its mobile IDS/IPS solution, protecting iPhones and iPads by monitoring network traffic behavior and remediating suspicious activity. On Monday the company won the Geektime conference best start-up award.
Skycure focuses on the network level, offering protection from external attackers while remaining invisible to the users. Many solutions, for example, require logging in to a separate “walled off” area of the phone. The new solution is currently available for iOS devices, with Android-compatible versions in the works.
“It is clear that mobile is the next battlefield for security. No device is ever 100-percent secure, and therefore companies need solutions such as these” said Jarad Carleton, principal consultant at Frost & Sullivan. “The Skycure solution adopts behavioral recognition techniques that are crucial given the ever-more-sophisticated nature of malicious attacks. Whether it be through social engineering or exploitation of vulnerabilities, devices are vulnerable, and this type of solutions will soon become a base requirement for companies.”
iHLS – Israel Homeland Security
The software is installed as an application on end users’ phones or other devices, complemented by a cloud component that enables management, secure communications to mitigate Wi-Fi man-in-the-middle attacks, and the collecting of information about dangerous Wi-Fi-networks. The solution protects the devices and allows corporate IT professionals to gain visibility into the threats their organizations face on a regular basis, featuring 4 major benefits among others:
- Behavioral analysis of device and wireless network activity to keep the hackers out
- Close management by IT teams to enable secure, policy-driven BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)
- No performance or operational impact
- Crowdsourcing
According to Yair Amit, co-founder and CTO at Skycure, the company’s goal is to provide comprehensive protection from attacks across three different major vectors: Attacks from the Internet, attacks from the device toward the corporate intranet, and attacks that result in sensitive data being leaked out of the device.
