Most facets of modern life—including our work—are app reliant. We depend on apps for productivity, for communication, to connect businesses with customers. Where we once relied on websites, we now turn to apps, which is why more organizations are developing their own applications for both internal and external business operational needs as well as adopting third-party apps for business use.
For all the convenience of apps, they come with a price. They offer a gateway for cybercriminals into your network infrastructure, according to Nigel Thorpe, technical director at SecureAge. The fundamental issue is that the more widely used an app is, the bigger and more attractive the target.
“The mobile device represents a nice easy way of implementing multi-factor authentication, for example. However, when an app is corrupted, taken over or otherwise abused by a cybercriminal, then trust in both the app and the organization are soon diminished,” Thorpe said. “Live and widespread communication is now natural to us, but the downside is that bad news spreads very rapidly. This can be disastrous for the organization, potentially causing long-term damage to the business.”
How Apps Offer an Open Door to Cybercrime
First, it’s important to remember that the majority of apps are fine and benign; most of them do what they are supposed to do and app stores do a good job at certifying them as safe. That, Thorpe said, is the good news. “The bad news is that even a ‘safe’ app can have vulnerabilities which can be exploited by cybercriminals. And that could mean anything from enabling the criminal to access private information right through to sneaking through a backdoor into the corporate network.”
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