Approov stands at the forefront of mobile cybersecurity: Our expansive customer base, ongoing research initiatives and the insights we collect from our live threat metrics, give us unique visibility into trends in mobile security.
First, let's talk about some general trends we see and then dive into our mobile predictions.
General Trends Cybersecurity skills will continue to be scarce.
AI will continue to be adopted but the winning solutions will provide visibility, control and ease-of-use to security teams.
Mobile Trends Mobile adoption will drive mobile-first cyber security strategies.
The security focus of enterprises has tended to see mobile app protection as a small component of the broader security strategy covering network, cloud, browser and web apps, but as mobile apps now dominate, mobile protection will gain a new focus.
Unprotected mobile apps will be weaponized by bad actors.
Even though effective mobile RASP and attestation solutions are available it is still too easy to tamper with mobile apps and turn them into malicious bots to target backends and APIs.
This will continue to be true in 2024 until there is a broader adoption of mobile security solutions.
Enterprise security investments will continue to be under pressure but some areas of investment will increase.
IT budgets are being downsized and this includes security.
Security spending will shift from legacy applications such as WAF to new areas such as Mobile RASP. In general, investment in mobile security will increase.
Major breakthroughs in mobile RASP on the other hand now provide a very effective way to defend apps and client environments which are beyond the traditional perimeter.
2024 will see a broad adoption of mobile RASP. Cross-platform developer tools will dominate the market.
As native Android and iOS security tools continue to diverge, the cost of developing for both platforms will increase, and there will be continued adoption of cross platform development tools such as React Native and Flutter, and a matching adoption of security solutions which operate seamlessly and consistently across both environments.
A number of studies in 2023 continued to show that important secrets such as certificates and API keys are still too easy to extract from widely deployed mobile apps, even when the code is obfuscated.
The high-end Smartwatch market will continue to grow and security solutions must adapt.
This means that in 2024 Apple Watches and other wearables can no longer depend on phone security and must have their own protections in place.
Mobile app security solutions will adapt to cover this new attack surface.
This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from Approov Blog authored by George McGregor.
This Cyber News was published on securityboulevard.com. Publication date: Thu, 07 Dec 2023 09:43:05 +0000