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Check Point announces the availability of the most complete cyber protection against mobile-related threats with a new version of Harmony Mobile that prevents the download of malicious files. Harmony Mobile is the first mobile threat solution among the industry’s top leading vendors to prevent the download of malicious files to mobile devices. With a staggering rise in mobile related attacks, Check Point Harmony Mobile customers can rest assured knowing that their critical business assets remain protected from even the most sophisticated attacks targeting their workforce via mobile devices.
Why do you need File Protection for your mobile?
In today’s hybrid workspace, employees are increasingly using their mobile devices to perform critical business tasks, share sensitive company information and access corporate applications. This new reality has expanded the mobile attack surface and made employees’ mobile devices a significant entry point for cyber attackers.
Organizations worldwide are experiencing a steep increase in mobile cyberattacks, both in quantity and in variety. According to Check Point Research, a staggering 97% of organizations have faced mobile threats from all vectors over the last two years with the rise of mobile ransomware attacks and malware-as-a-service.
One of the most overlooked vectors in mobile security is file download. Over the past weeks, Harmony Mobile has already prevented multiple attack attempts in the wild using malicious files, including botnets and phishing. According to Check Point’s ThreatCloud, out of billions of files scanned weekly, more than 0.5% contain malicious content. Files such as PDF, GIF images, and Excel sheets can all be malicious and facilitate cyberattacks on your mobile device fleet and on your organization.
Just this year we’ve seen highly sophisticated attacks using files as an attack vector including spyware using PDF and GIF files to penetrate mobile operating systems. A similar vulnerability was found by Check Point researchers on the Instagram app.
What can you do to protect your Mobile from malicious files?
Most mobile security solutions can scan files that are related to the mobile operating system, such as apps and iOS profiles, but that does not protect your mobile from other malicious file types such as executables, MS Office files, PDFs and more.
Check Point Harmony Mobile is the only mobile security solution that protects you from any type of file.
How does Harmony Mobile File Protection work?
Harmony Mobile uses ThreatCloud, the brain behind all of Check Point’s products, for scanning files. ThreatCloud combines the latest AI technology with big data threat intelligence, as well as threat intelligence collected and analyzed by Check Point’s elite research team. ThreatCloud provides the best catch rate in the industry of known and unknown threats, blocks attacks faster than anyone else and has zero false positives.
