Kroll in the News

Mobile technology changes making cyber security more difficult

Nashville, TN - December 14, 2011

Mobile technology security threats will be at an all-time high, and social media will increase in popularity as conduit for social engineering attacks, says Kroll Inc. in its annual security forecast released Wednesday.

Karen Schuler, Nashville, Tenn.-based practice leader of Kroll's Cyber Security and Information Assurance Division, said in a statement, “The events of 2011 suggest that the cyber security landscape will find public and private organizations are still on unsteady footing. Traditional pain points for organizations including mobile technologies, incident response and regulatory requirements will intensify as new and developing challenges surface in 2012.”

Discussing mobile technology security threats, Kroll said mobile technologies “are changing so rapidly that in some organizations the demand and pressure to deploy new technologies (e.g. tablet computers) will outstrip the organization's existing capabilities to secure them. This unfortunate dynamic is no secret to thieves who are ready and waiting with highly targeted malware and attacks employing mobile applications.”

 

Read the full article, by Judy Greenwald, at Business Insurance.