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Mobile App Security in The Midst of a Pandemic

By Tom Tovar CEO and co-creator of Appdome

In the “new normal” of COVID-19, businesses are relying on mobile apps to ensure business operations
and revenue flowing.

Restaurants, grocery stores and essential businesses, for example, now enable customers to order food
via their phone for curbside pickup or delivery via apps like GrubHub, DoorDash and UberEats, increasing
safety for consumers.

Businesses face a two-pronged challenge. First is the need to rely on mobile apps to maintain sources
of revenue. Second, and equally important, is a massive shift to work-at-home, which has dramatically
increased the reliance on mobile apps for internally-focused enterprise processes vital for managing and
executing day-to-day workflows.

To cope, organizations are rushing to add new functionality and updates to both their consumer-facing
and internal mobile apps, but in so doing, many are making security an afterthought. Indeed, the Verizon
Mobile Security Index 2020 found that 43% of organizations knowingly cut corners on mobile security to
“get the job done.” And that was before the additional pressure put on development teams by COVID-19.

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