CHAPTER SUMMARY
The use of application provenance and sandboxing has proven to be a sound foundation for securing Apple iOS mobile devices. Application provenance helps to ensure that developers and applications are vetted before the applications are released. Sandboxing helps ensure that applications are self-contained so that issues with one application do not affect others.
The efficacy of the application provenance model is essentially proven by the fact that the one platform that does not use this model is the one that has the most issues with malware. Also, most issues on iOS devices that do use this model are the result of users circumventing provenance control.
Beyond the device-specific security models, IT teams also require the ability ...
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