As security continues to evolve, has your mobile strategy?

Omnissa Workspace ONE Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) helps IT teams manage end-user devices (corporate, shared, BYOD) across the entire fleet. But here’s the catch. According to Forrester, “UEM is not built to recognize malicious actions of bad apps, websites, or network connections”. That’s a real concern given that today’s mobile threats aren’t just spam—they’re quite sophisticated. In fact, they’ve become so advanced that even the FBI issued a warning. 

Here's one I received just today! 

Mobile threats aren’t slowing down, they’re surging 

Lookout’s Q1 2025 Mobile Threat Landscape Report reveals 1M+ mobile phishing attacks on enterprise users. A single breach could set off a chain reaction of undetected exploits, leaving your organization vulnerable to a host of issues, including costly data breaches.

According to the Verizon’s 2024 Mobile Security Index, 77% anticipate that AI-assisted attacks, such as deepfakes and SMS phishing, are likely to succeed.

What’s keeping CISO’s up at night? 

Phishing, malware, social engineering, AI-generated deepfakes. The list keeps growing.  

Imagine this: malware running on a mobile device silently activates the camera and microphone, spying and listening in on sensitive meetings, undetected. No signs. Just exposure. Quoting my colleague ‘are your organizations’s mobile devices secure?’ 

Corporate devices are prime targets because they’re trusted. It’s always connected and are susceptible to: 

• Social engineering campaigns focused on high-value individuals (i.e. executive impersonation) with access to restricted information including financials and intellectual property.
• User behavior risks as employees may install personals apps, click unknown links, or connect to public networks—introducing risk even on managed devices. 

Bring your own devices (BYOD) face even more risks because they often operate outside traditional network perimeters, making it harder for security teams to detect anomalies.  

• Targeted campaigns leverage publicly available info to identify employees and steal their credentials.
• Jailbreaking/rooting: some users bypass device restrictions, weakening built-in security controls. 

Reduce risk with specialized mobile security  

Workspace ONE Mobile Threat Defense stands as the answer to those risks, offering robust endpoint security in a rapidly evolving cyber threat landscape. Mobile Threat Defense is specifically designed to detect and protect against mobile cybersecurity threats, providing real-time threat detection, remediation, and blocking capabilities. 

Watch this video on how Mobile Threat Defense integrates with UEM so that when specific issues and risk levels increase, workflows can be triggered to remediate issues and spur responses from IT and security teams, if needed.

Better together 

With Workspace ONE UEM, you have a solid foundation for device management. Workspace ONE Mobile Threat Defense is the vigilant guard watching for suspicious activity. Together, they help employees securely access apps and resources and manage endpoint risk.

Explore Workspace ONE UEM and  Workspace ONE Mobile Threat Defense to see how they work in tandem. If you’re an existing Workspace ONE customer, ask us about running a proof of concept in your environment. If you are a new customer and interested in best-in-class mobile management and security, please get in touch with us.