Every day, employees access email and other business applications through handheld devices. More and more business applications support mobile-device interfaces. The challenge for developers today is not only getting content to the mobile device but also securing the device. Threats to mobile devices include the following:
Identity theft via a lost or stolen device
Eavesdropping on data communications
Surveillance of confidential screen content
Phishing of content from rogue sites
Man-in-the-middle attacks through intercepted signals
Inadequate device resources to provide a strong security implementation
Social attacks on unaware users that yield identity information