By:bhavesh
December 16th , 2015

Escalating Security Concerns for Mobile App Developers

 Mobile App Development

Birth of BYOD and Concerns for Mobility Solutions

Today human resources are precious and becoming more important when productivity and performance in question. Therefore, modern businesses and enterprises want to keep their employee happy and comfortable when working environment is in concern. Moreover, today we have multiple computing devices to aid in our work directly or indirectly. Therefore, the workforce in the business hardly sticks with a single device even in the business or enterprise premises. Many employees feel comfortable with their smartphones, tablets, or laptops used personally at home and office. Switching from personal devices to official devices for ongoing work is not possible and feasible for businesses as well as their employees. This has given birth of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) concept, and Wi-Fi or other wireless network advancements have made it possible. For instance, accountant use desktop in the office, business managers have laptops, while marketing team is using smartphones or tablets to access the company network within premise or anywhere in the field. Many mobility solutions have made work easy and smooth going for enterprises and SMBs due to access to cloud services anywhere on the planet. These trends of BYOD are irreversible and increasing with the advent of technologies.

Security Challenges for Mobile Application Developers

This has led to unprecedented challenges for the mobile app developers working on big scale mobility solutions such as:
  • Now, mobility solutions providers have to develop multiscreen and multi-operating system compatible applications. They have to go for the web-based solutions or cloud-based mobility solutions, which can run on any device, be it, large desktops, tiny smartphone, or a big Internet TV.
  • Operating systems are altogether different for the web and mobile platforms, even mobiles are suffering from acute fragmentation issues due to diversity in hardware and OS.
  • The biggest challenge comes when mobile app developers have to look after security threats. With the increase in usage of mobile-based solutions in enterprises or businesses, security of personal as well as business data put on threats.
  • Hackers and thieves are employing all the latest hacking technologies and techniques to find out the hole in the system to penetrate, and BYOD gives them quickly.
  • With BYOD, IT team of the business lost the control over the security credential of the network and attached devices. Applying firewalls for BYOD devices is not feasible or possible option. Installing antivirus software of choice is tough to implement.
  • Version control and hardware compatibility are tough to manage issues in BYOD. Securing the wireless connection security is a significant challenge even big investment employed.
  • Fresh or novice employees are not trained enough to take adequate measures to a personal level, and they don’t know when to open mail or attachment and when not to click on the insecure flagged links.
  • Applying software patches and updates become tough on BYOD devices The uniform installation of firewalls, intrusion detection system, and prevention system is tough to do on BYOD devices
  • Monitoring of corporate network round-the-clock for the IT department of the business is becoming tough when BYOD is implemented.
  • Deciding on “who gets what” from enterprise resources is daunting when the diversity of BYOD is existing.

How to Manage Security Concerns

The best way is to hire experienced and dependable mobile software development company for the mobile app development requirements of the business. Therefore, an excellent team of seasoned mobile app developers will take care of your all mobility and enterprise solutions with following concerns:
  • Preparing the mobile security strategies and roadmaps that can address present as well as futuristic security concerns
  • Running the mobile device use risk assessment
  • Running the mobile application security assessment
  • Running the evaluation of incident responses and forensic investigation if needed
  • Registering the devices and inspecting the security aspects of the devices should make compulsory for BYOD users
  • Planning the security standards for each category of devices and implement strictly Keep data of all used devices in BYOD and implement regular checking by the security team of IT in organization
  • Secure the wireless network using the latest technologies and tools Train the workforce to manage security concerns on regular basis and pay special attentions on the fresh recruitments
  • Select the private cloud services against the public services if possible Select mix cloud services wherever public cloud is essential and use encryption like technologies to mitigate the security threats
  • Keep strict watch on employees related to database work or have access to the sensitive corporate data through all possible physical and virtual security systems
  • Raise the moral standards of workforce against the data breaches, data stealing, or data loss incidents Set standards for the transactions and data exchanges for the BYOD devices and only allow the most dependable categories of employees to accomplish it.
  • Implement all recommendations made by the third-party services like banks, finance institutions, and other services attached to the organization and its functions
  • Try to keep control over the devices used in BYOD for software, browsers, plug-ins, and OS versions if possible and release guidelines time-to-time to enhance your security at all end devices levels
Apart from the aforementioned recommendations, we have a lot of things to implement to minimize the security concerns of businesses. Unfortunately, discussing all is not possible and even need the inputs of the business to offer the tailor-made solutions and recommendations. Therefore, we would like to request you to arrange a short virtual meeting with our mobile app development team as well as our enterprise solution experts to put things on the table. Of course, if you have good suggestions to improve the security of the enterprise where BYOD is existing, we warmly welcome you with our comment box.