Mobile devices are part and parcel of today’s increasingly distributed workforce. Laptops, smartphones, and tablets are provisioned by enterprises to increase employee productivity, while providing flexibility to work remotely. But when the pandemic struck, security teams across industries were challenged by the unprecedented speed and scale of the shift. This disruption created great strain for IT security teams. Pair that with the increase in employee BYOD devices, already-overworked IT teams raced to ensure only authorized devices could connect to corporate assets. 

The National Security Agency’s Research Directorate has announced it has selected “Spectre Attacks: Exploiting Speculative Execution” as the winner of its 8th Annual Best Cybersecurity Research Paper competition. Originally published at the 2019 IEEE Security & Privacy Symposium, the winning paper, in combination with Meltdown, another award-winning paper released earlier by the same researchers, launched a global effort to mitigate critical vulnerabilities in processors. 

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is looking for public and private sector experts to take part in an exercise that will evaluate the digital forensics community’s ability to conduct mobile- and computer-based investigations.

NIST’s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence is seeking industry comments on its newly released draft guidance for corporate-owned personally enabled (COPE) mobile devices.

New research reveals that enterprise users and security professionals alike are frustrated by the inefficiency and lax security of passwords for user authentication.

A majority of attendees at RSA this week plan to spend more on mobile security in the coming year.

Prey Inc. announced the results of the inaugural Prey Mobile Theft & Loss Report, which found that misplaced devices were responsible for the vast majority – 69 percent – of all devices reported missing in 2018. Ultimately, the Prey survey determined that mobile device owners are a greater threat to their devices than are thieves and that, when if comes to device theft, the most comfortable and familiar places, such as offices, homes or schools, can be the least safe.