CSA Releases Security Guidance For Critical Areas Of Mobile Computing

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) has released version 1.0 of the “Security Guidance for Critical Areas of Mobile Computing” which provides an assessment of the current state of mobile computing as well as details the prevailing top threats to mobile computing. The guidance details the various components of mobile computing, requiring business decisions on how each it should be implemented throughout the enterprise.

“Mobile computing has fundamentally transformed the way we work, ushering in a new era of productivity and efficiency. But the benefits wrought by mobility ultimately come with a cost in terms of ensuring that established security protocols are consistently and correctly applied,” said David Lingenfelter, CSA Mobile Working Group Co-Chair. “This guidance is the product of many months of in-depth research on behalf of the CSA Mobile Working Group and represents an important step in mitigating the inherent risks that comes with mobile computing.”

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More than 100 member companies along with the CSA research team jointly worked to develop the 60-page guidance report which provides a comprehensive overview of the mobile security landscape.

The report is broken out into three principal sections:

The Mobile Working Group, co-chaired by David Lingenfelter of Fiberlink and Cesare Garlati of Trend Micro is responsible for providing fundamental research to help secure mobile endpoint computing from a cloud centric vantage point. The CSA invites interested companies and individuals to support the group’s research and initiatives.