Organizations adopt remote working, BYO and COPE devices, there are more opportunities for employees to work with mobile endpoints. As onboarding of mobile endpoints grow exponentially, the risk of cyber threats and attacks targeted at these devices also grow at the same or greater rate. To safeguard sensitive information, preserve privacy, and ensure smooth functioning of both personal and business activities, an effective mobile threat management solution is necessary. Mobile threat management is a critical component in the interconnected digital landscape. This approach involves real-time monitoring of mobile endpoints to identify, mitigate, and prevent a wide range of security risks that pose potential harm to mobile devices, their users, and the data that is being handled.

Quadrant Knowledge Solutions has conducted an extensive research on Mobile Threat Management and has assessed 22 key vendors in the market. The comprehensive documentation, to be published as SPARK Matrix: Mobile Threat Management (MTM), 2023, will emphasize the importance of the technology and the competitive analysis of vendors, evaluated by Quadrant’s technology specific evaluation criteria. The report will reflect the insights gathered from detailed product briefings conducted by the vendors and backs the enterprises in choosing the right product that matches their requirement.

Quadrant’s evaluation of Mobile Threat Management (MTM) vendors involves in-depth study about every vendor’s offering, comparing the capabilities offered, and the evaluation includes technological excellence in the market with respect to the trends and the customer impact on the offering.

According to Swathi Suresh, Analyst at Quadrant Knowledge Solutions, Mobile Threat Management (MTM) is “A solution that detects and analyzes mobile threats and remediates with appropriate measures to protect the mobile devices of an organization against known and unknown threats that arise at the device, application and network-level.” An MTM solution uses Threat Intelligence and Behavioral Analytics capabilities to identify the threat when a device is compromised.

A Mobile Threat Management solution involves the deployment of privacy and security measures to secure mobile endpoints from unauthorized access, data breaches, malware attacks, phishing attacks, man-in-the-middle attack, spoofing and more. To prevent these attacks and infections, Mobile Threat Management solution involves taking appropriate security measures like deployment of antivirus, secure networks and encryption protocols. The solution evaluates OS versions, system settings, firmware, and device configurations on mobile devices for risk hunting. MTM solutions continuously scan for unusual, unsanctioned, and suspicious activities of users and behavioral analysis of devices is done. Furthermore, MTM solutions scan for unusual behavior in network traffic and unauthorized access to the network. The solution can detect counterfeit and invalid certificates as well.

To summarize, “SPARK Matrix: Mobile Threat Management (MTM), 2023” report facilitates organizations with the overall analysis of all the vendors and enables in understanding the market, with which effective decisions can be made to maintain a competitive advantage. Unravelling the strengths, capabilities, unique offerings and technology roadmaps of all the vendors, organizations can make efforts and thrive to provide better offerings to become technology leaders.

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Author : Swathi Suresh Analyst at Quadrant Knowledge Solutions