CDM sets its sights on thorny mobile security challenges

StateScoop: The growing ubiquity of smartphones and tablet computers is presenting the Department Homeland Security’s continuous diagnostics and mitigation program with the familiar challenge of safeguarding federal networks from cyberattacks but on a more complex scale.

“On the mobile side, the number of different attack vectors, different types of attacks, the various requirements guidance for a security benchmark standpoint differs, the way we get to software and many applications that a mobile environment offers and then the assets themselves and how they are managed” are all factors to consider, CDM program manager Kevin Cox said.

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