Raising the bar in Mobile Security

Today we announce our partnership with West Coast Labs, a leading certification firm in the digital security industry, to power its next generation certification program for Enterprise Mobile Security. Our NewSky Security AppRisk™ platform will be the technical building blocks for end-to-end Checkmark Mobile Application Certification.  This automation platform starts with Android mobile devices and will expand to iOS, embedded Linux or other mobile OSes based on customer demands.

The initial vulnerability assessment, powered by NewSky Security AppRisk™ automation, covers static code assessment, privilege abuse investigation, 3rd party SDK usage, app hardening and dynamic behavioral analysis.  This test methodology is aligned with the guidance from the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), with coverage of SQL injection, cross site scripting (XSS), cross site request forgery (CSRF), pass the hash (PtH), Denial of Service (DoS), among other criteria.

Why do we endorse mobile security certification? Mobile and IoT are the new security nightmare for IT professionals as the attack scope has widened to anywhere and anytime. According to a Ponemon survey, 63% of corporations that reported a data breach admit it was the result of mobile security issues.  In our sandbox test, we’ve observed 80% of mobile applications with at least one high risk vulnerability. Our NewSky Security AppRisk™ Vulnerability Detection platform provides predictive risk assessment and monitoring across the lifecycle of mobile applications and IoT devices. NewSky Security AppRisk™ Intelligence empowers IT professionals to stay informed of corporate data risks, and keep up with the threat actors in this growing battlefield.

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P.S. We’ll be at CES next week.  For those who are interested in connecting with us, you can find us at our security demo at the Changhong Inc (our strategic IoT security partner) expo booth, or contact us via [email protected].