Why you must have the best secure mobile for your business?

Doing business in a rapidly changing world has its advantages and disadvantages. Mobile technology has definitely improved productivity. It means you are always in contact, even when traveling internationally. You have continuous access to shared files, emails, text messages, and voice messages or calls.

The great versatility offered by mobile devices also makes them more vulnerable to attack. The more connected you are, the greater the chance that your device can be hacked.

There are countless business mobile security apps available. Many promises the very best mobile VPN encryption, end-to-end business data encryption, as well as protection from business mobile ransomware, and Wi-Fi attacks. Do these business mobile protection services actually provide complete peace of mind?

This article is going to delve deep into the world of business mobile security. What are the threats? What is the best way to avoid these threats?

There are a lot of knowledgeable people who believe that IronTel is the only sure protection for business mobile. Is IronTel mobile security really as good as they say it is? This is what we aim to discover.

To get the full picture, let’s start by examining the threats that business mobile users may encounter.

Types of Mobile Security Threats

You may be aware of the common threats faced by mobile users and probably have some idea of what you can do to improve your mobile security. To provide a context for assessing and mitigating these threats, I’ll give a brief overview of the most common threats that mobile users face:

There are four basic types of threats that business mobile users need to be aware of:

1. Mobile Application Security Breach: A user may inadvertently download an application that appears to be legitimate. These cleverly disguised apps are, in fact, designed to access data on the device or to the business network while connecting remotely, even through an encrypted VPN connection. Spyware and malware hidden within the app can be used to steal confidential business data from the device or from the business storage, track the user location, even listen to voice calls with business partners, or access the camera viewing very private pictures and even recording the surrounding area.
2. Mobile Device Security Breach: This refers to hackers gaining access to the physical device. Typically, this occurs when the device is lost or stolen. Cunning hackers may even distract you for a brief moment in order to access your device without you being aware of it. This could give them full access to your personal and business data even without knowing the password. They can get all data by connecting sophisticated digital forensics systems to the device’s USB port.
3. Network Security Breach: This is a common threat when using public Wi-Fi hotspot networks (taking a big security risk), like in open parks, cafe bars, and hotels. Cybercriminals can access unencrypted data when using an unsecured network by enforcing such as WiFi Man-In-The-Middle (MITM) attack or Evil Twin attack.
4. Web-Based Security Breach: This threat emanates from a website that looks fine when you land on it. Without the user’s knowledge, these sites will download malicious content onto the mobile device (XSS attack) to get full control of your device and then get access to your private and confidential business data.

Now let’s take a look at how these threats are put into practice.

Common Phishing Attacks

Phishing is a common threat that most internet users are aware of. Despite this, millions of people fall victim to phishing, and other social engineering attacks, every year. In 2020, mobile phishing increased by 37% as hackers attempt to devise ever more cunning methods to entice people.

A hacker will send an email, text message, or post on your social media pages with a link that you or your employees are encouraged to follow. When you tap on the link, it will access and download information from the device, like contacts and passwords. A popular method is to tell people they have won a prize and need to click on a link to claim it.

Phishing can also be done in a less subtle way, by simply tricking people into divulging personal information under the auspices of a legitimate organization. A hacker may pose as your bank and ask you to enter your password to complete a particular action.

Avoiding a Phishing attack mostly requires personal vigilance. You need to be cautious about clicking on unknown links sent by email. Never enter your password unless you know you have logged onto the official site for which that password is used.

Preventing phishing is all about awareness and common sense. It is important that your employees are aware of these security risks.

Malicious Mobile Apps

One of the great benefits of android and IOS is the seemingly limitless array of apps available for mobile devices. It’s incredibly easy to visit Google Play or the App Store and download apps for fun or to enable you to conduct your business more efficiently.

Most mobile users don’t realize that 85% of apps are unsecured. This means that hackers are able to develop attacks designed to infiltrate that app to gain access to your sensitive data.

When you install an app you are usually prompted to accept the terms and conditions before continuing. How many of us actually read these T&Cs before installing the app? Generally, if we trust the store or the app developer, we click without giving it a thought.

Among the Terms for installing an app, is usually a clause granting permission to access files or folders on your mobile device. This, in itself, is not a problem. The app will probably need this information to function. However, that permission may also allow hackers to gain the same access as the legitimate service provider.

A Mobile Device Management (MDM) tool grants IT managers the ability to wipe or control access to permissions for apps. This is the best way of eliminating the threat of malicious apps without any disruption to the user or the functioning of the app.

Learn more about how to manage app permissions.

WiFi Unsecured

Public Wi-Fi networks are an ideal platform for hackers to gain access to your mobile when connected over an insecure connection. Intrepid criminals may infiltrate an unsecured public Wi-Fi network or set up a fake network (Evil Twin attack). The nefarious Wi-Fi network will look like any other public network, with a fake security certificate. When you connect to this network, cybercriminals can gain access to the information on your device.

The best way to prevent an unsecured Wi-Fi attack is to always use an encrypted Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection for all business data transfers.

End-to-End Encryption Breach

Encryption has become the holy grail of internet security. Messenger apps, like WhatsApp, are automatically encrypted. However, not all apps are end-to-end encrypted, leaving these apps vulnerable to attack.

We’ve already discussed the danger of using an unsecured public Wi-Fi network without encryption. Though, even when using end-to-end encryption, there can be a weak link in the chain – an encryption gap.

Your internet service provider may not be encrypted, providing a gap that hackers can exploit. While your device or the app you’re using may have end-to-end encryptions, an unencrypted provides a gap for hackers to gain access.

End-to-end encrypted apps are required to have a “back door”. This is essentially an encryption key used to decrypt the information. It’s sort of like an encryption override that allows permitted authorities, like law enforcement or governments, to decrypt information sent by criminals.

While backdoor decryption is controlled and can only be used if a warrant is granted by a judge, hackers may get hold of a decryption key and use it to access end-to-end encrypted information from apps like Facebook and WhatsApp.

The best way to avoid an end-to-end encryption breach is to only send data on a device with encryption installed on it and to use a secure encrypted private server.

Spyware Apps

Spyware is used by governments and common hackers. Highly sophisticated spyware, like Pegasus, can cost over a million dollars. Whereas more common spyware (often used for corporate espionage) can be relatively cheap (sometimes free), and available as a downloadable app.

Depending on how advanced the spyware is, it can allow hackers to access files, apps, passwords, record conversations, emails, text messages, and remotely access the recording app or camera. It goes without saying, that spyware is an enormous potential threat to business communication and protecting classified information.

Apps are available to provide some protection from spyware. Though high-end, expensive spyware may not be detected by cheap or free spyware protection apps. A business that requires complete protection from spyware needs a professional business security solution, like IronTel which uses the Harmony Mobile security system of Check Point, the best antivirus software for mobile devices.

Zero-Day Attacks

A zero-day (0day) exploit is the most sophisticated cyber-attack that can attack your smartphone device (or PC/Mac operating systems). This kind of attack targets an OS or an app software vulnerability, revealed by highly trained Android/IOS hackers, unknown to that OS/App developer or antivirus systems. Zero-day attacks have a high rate of success because the target device stays defenseless against them. This makes zero-day attacks a severe security threat.

Typical targets of the Zero-day attack are popular apps (like Whatsapp, email clients, Chrome browser, etc.) that require and are given permissions (by the device owner) to access storage, mic, camera, GPS, and most importantly to the Internet from where the attack is launched and then upload all of the device’s contents.

The basic security practice that everyone should take is to review the apps’ permissions and allow only the necessary permissions per app. All the other permissions should be disabled or should be enabled per request.

Ransomware Cyber-Attack

This may be one of the oldest forms of cyber-attack, dating back to the late 1980s. In 1996 it was better defined and given the official title of cryptoviral extortion.

The owner of the device will be contacted, and a demand for payment will be made for a deactivation key. Basically, you will need to pay a ransom to receive a code that will prevent the hackers from using or sharing the information they have stolen. If you have been blocked from using the device, the code will restore your access.

What is the best way to protect your business mobile device?

You need to take a multi-faceted approach when ensuring that business data, calls, and messages are secure and private. It starts with the device that you use.

IronTel is based on the best Samsung business-class devices, which is probably the leader in cyber security for mobile devices. Top Samsung phones offer a range of built-in security features, like Knox and Knox Vault (EAL5+ certified), usually provided to big enterprise businesses. IronTel is also integrating with Harmony Mobile (Check Point’s best mobile protection) security suite, which provides unmatched protection against malicious apps, phishing attacks, and device compromises. Arguably, the most advanced mobile security. Samsung has some of the best high-security business platforms, including an advanced MDM system with OTA (Over-The-Air) instance commands.

While Samsung’s advanced mobile security is usually maintained by big enterprises with IT departments, IronTel is delivering the same Samsung mobile security, plus its own security methods, to business people and small businesses (SMB) for the top level of protection and privacy.

IronTel has taken this extraordinary device and added extra security layers for complete protection against any threat. Essentially, IronTel has taken what Samsung offers to enterprises and elevated it to provide complete business telecommunication privacy and security for business people and small businesses.

What are the IronTel Mobile Advantages?

Taking the best secure phone of Samsung business-class device, and making it better requires a certain type of dedication. Secure Iron Tel has a team of experts constantly monitoring threats and devising ways to combat them. This means the latest security updates to your phone are always available, ensuring that your IronTel mobile remains one step ahead of potential hackers.

There are several features that make IronTel mobile the best choice for business mobile security:

Business Data Confidentiality – 1 Device 2 Phones

Just like the security requirements for your home differ from your office, so the personal and business data on your secure phone will not be the same. IronTel has set up the Dual Persona system to offer separate security and storage for your business and personal data.

This means that a separate security protocol is used for business and personal use, even though you’re using the same device for both. You’re actually using 1 device with 2 phones. For example, the personal policy will allow you to download your favorite apps from the Google Play store only (apps can be filtered by white/black list), whereas the business policy will only allow selected encrypted apps to be installed from closed private Play Store (dedicated to IronTel).

The IronTel mobile Business profile allows safe browsers only, like the Tor and Firefox secure browsers(without Chrome), for best privacy, and with restrictions to download and install apps to prevent malicious injection. It does not even allow you to open a Google account (and others) for not being tracked by all social media networks. Read more here.

Separating the personal apps from the business and restricting the business apps installation to secure business apps only, eliminating the chance of spyware and even Zero-day attack on your confidential business data.

ConfiTel App End-to-End Encryption

The business profile utilizes the ConfiTel app (preinstalled), offering true end-to-end encrypted telecommunication for your business, without any metadata exposure to any public media network (it is a fully private network). This ensures complete privacy for chat (text and multimedia), voice calls, and video calls, between IronTel mobiles only. It also offers complete peace of mind when sending confidential files, knowing they are 100% protected by the most advanced private network encryption. A ConfiTel user has a unique id used for internal switching only without any identification; it does not require a traceable public phone number or an email address for complete anonymity.

Anonymous Virtual Number

IronTel provides you with an anonymous +44 (UK) virtual mobile number to keep your identity private. You can use this anonymous virtual mobile number to register your favorite social media applications in the business profile (like a second account of WhatsApp, Telegram, etc.) and keep your communication completely anonymous. The registration code is securely received as an encrypted message in the ConfiTel app (unlike traceable SMS). The operators of these apps see only that anonymous number as your identifier (which is not linked to you publicly) and not your actual private SIM number.

The Best VPN Encryption Protocol

Your location and IP address always remain private, thanks to the IronTel secure VPN connection. Using the best OpenVPN encryption protocol in the business zone and a remote OpenVPN private server. All business application traffic is transparently encrypted and tunneled out on all cellular and Wi-Fi networks, either at your home, office, or in an unsecured public hotspot.

The bottom line – complete privacy and data security of your confidential business data.

Please read IronTel post about the best business VPN solution.

Private Secure Server

Small businesses and private users generally operate from an IronTel private secure server. However, larger organizations often prefer using their own dedicated server, installed on the premises or remotely. IronTel caters to all these needs.

IronTel operates through a private secure server that is transparent for all end-to-end encrypted app traffic.

This private server contains three primary modules:

• Samsung Knox Security Platform: Authenticates and secures IronTel mobile devices.

• Switching Server: Authenticates and registers Mobile ConfiTel apps and maintains encrypted end-to-end streams.

• VPN Server: Authenticates and registers the IronTel OpenVPN client apps, maintaining secure VPN communication between all IronTel VPN clients.

Is IronTel the best mobile security solution for your business?

If you’re one of the many who believe that Samsung is the best mobile for security, then IronTel can only be described as better than the best. IronTel has taken the best Samsung devices and optimized them for the ultimate in business mobile security.

IronTel offers the latest Samsung devices, with a full manufacturer warranty, and the best mobile phone security. Enhanced security features are added to the device making it a powerful security solution with the highest level of security. Most importantly, you connect through the IronTel private secure VPN server.

The best, totally secure end-to-end encryption ensures complete privacy and data protection for IronTel mobiles. Constant updates mean that you are always on top of the latest mobile security, leaving hackers little chance of gaining access to your mobile device.

If you demand the highest level of mobile security and privacy, there can be but only one option – IronTel mobile!

Interesting articles:

• 17 Best Hidden Spy Apps for Android (No Root)
• https://www.znetlive.com/blog/how-to-secure-your-mobile-device-data/

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