13Mobile Security Infrastructure

13.1 Overview

Since your mobility infrastructure is composed of mostly servers, you must be diligent with regard to patching. You must keep systems hardened and perform regular environment reviews and upgrades as required. Verizon’s “2012 Data Breach Investigations Report” provides some eye-opening statistics:

  • 97% of breaches were avoidable through simple or intermediate controls.

  • 96% of attacks were not highly difficult.

  • 94% of all data compromised involved servers.1

What does this mean to you? It means that a small but consistent level of due diligence on your part with regard to patching and configuration adjustments translates into a significant drop in breaches into your mobility infrastructure ...

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