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Are mobile phones en masse more or less vulnerable than other systems? Or are they just different?

By Fredric Paul
03/31/14

This post is probably going to get my mobile phone hacked, but conflicting news reports have got me wondering whether mobile devices are really as vulnerable as some vendors and doomsayers would suggest.

It would be crazy to say that all mobile devices are perfectly secure. Given that Angela Merkel, the Chancellor of Germany, had her phone hacked, it’s probably closer to the truth that NO mobile device is completely secure. But are mobile phones en masse more or less vulnerable than other systems?

It’s an important question. With the rise of BYOD and shadow IT, in particular, a wide variety of mobile devices are now critical parts of the enterprise network infrastructure, whether or not they’re managed and security by enterprise IT.

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