Business Value The native protection offered by mobile device operating system vendors and device manufacturers is not sufficient to identify and prevent the threats targeting mobile users and devices. S&R professionals implement MTD to: Extend malicious action prevention to mobile devices.

Customers view IBM MaaS360 as a scalable cost-effective mobile device management platform with responsive support. Their concerns focus on slow delivery of new functions and limited reporting capabilities. Forrester’s take. MaaS360 is ideal for enterprises needing a highly scalable mobile-centric platform, including requirements for shared devices for frontline workers. View IBM’s detailed scorecard.

For example, using dark backgrounds on device screens can produce significant energy savings: from 5% to 40% for mobile devices. You can also realize considerable energy savings by ensuring that users turn off desktops and laptops that remain onsite when they leave the office and activate airplane mode on mobile devices during sleep hours.

Endpoint management security features are a foundation for Zero Trust to secure sensitive data across distributed devices. Forrester’s 2025 data shows that 52% of enterprise security decision-makers said their firm used a unified endpoint management system to enforce device policies for mobile security and management on smartphones and tablets.

Figure 9 Mobile Threat Defense In Forrester’s Security Survey, 2024, 35% of security decision-makers reported that their organization used mobile threat defense (MTD) to protect the smartphones and tablets in their enterprise; 40% said that their organization used mobile antivirus software. However, simple antivirus solutions don’t offer complete protection because they don’t prevent phishing or network-based attacks that target mobile devices or even deeply assess the applications for risks.

Today’s passwordless authentication solutions, such as HYPR, Microsoft, Ping Identity, and Trusona, usually offer a backchannel (i.e., a server-initiated internet data connection from the server to the user’s mobile device) push of a secure challenge to the end user’s mobile device.

Low availability and high prices for products like mobile phones, PCs, data center hardware, cars, and appliances drove consumer frustration. The ongoing shortage has evolved through five stages (see Figure 1): Stage one: pre-pandemic tech bubble. Technology demand was growing in the late 2010s, with cloud services expansion, PC and mobile device refreshes in play, and a rise in embedded instrumentation for burgeoning edge computing and IoT applications.

Mobile POS drives store redesign — but exposes resilience gaps. Retailers are reimagining store layouts around mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) devices to streamline checkout and elevate customer experience. Yet when networks fail or mPOS devices go offline, these layouts unravel — queues form, transactions stall, and customer satisfaction nosedives. Few retailers have contingency plans or disaster recovery processes for payment disruptions.

Manage And Secure Mobile Devices Used Within Your Business Mobile devices that are used by employees for business purposes are just as vulnerable to compromise as any desktop or laptop. Since users bring these devices everywhere and can easily connect to employee-owned EVs and rentals, these EVs now have access to business information.

Legacy encryption algorithms show up in every domain of IAM, including certificate-based authentication (often a key component of mobile device and app authentication), mobile device-based multifactor authentication, risk-based authentication’s device posture management, qualified electronic signatures (QES), and decentralized digital identity ecosystems. IBM, Microsoft, Okta, Ping Identity, and other IAM vendors have started communicating their QS product strategy.