Mobile Device Security Configuration Assessment (MDSCA)

Service Description

Mobile devices have become increasingly common and powerful.  Many organisations are utilising their features in order to deploy unique and flexible mobile working solutions.  Mobile devices share many of the same characteristics of desktop and portable laptop computing systems and often store and process sensitive data and offer remote connectivity into corporate networks.  It is of the utmost importance that these mobile working solutions be protected and secured.

A Mobile Device Security Assessment provides insight into the resilience of a mobile device, its resident applications and security software to withstand attack from unauthorised users and the potential for valid users to abuse their privileges and access.  An effective assessment evaluates the security of the mobile device against best practice criteria to validate security mechanisms and identify vulnerabilities.

Experienced Activity consultants will provide a full assessment of any mobile device, resident applications, security ‘lockdown’ software, or ‘hardened’ configuration, with the goal of identifying vulnerabilities that could be used to compromise the mobile device or any interconnected or backend systems, that would potentially result in the loss, modification, exposure or destruction of information that the device and or system stores and processes.  Activity’s approach simulates real-world attacks to provide a view of current vulnerabilities and threats to the device.