The Lookout Security Platform protecting data from endpoint to cloud

Surojit Dasgupta
Country Manager – India and SAARC, Lookout

Protection against cybercrime

In India, we’ve seen that organizations typically have strong security solutions on their desktops, servers, and laptops but lack equal protection for mobile devices. Some organizations have invested in mobile device management (MDM) for authentication and administration of devices. However, these solutions don’t provide protection against the most threatening issues like mobile phishing attacks, network-based attacks, and malware.

Today, almost 85% of mobile phishing attacks reach the victim outside of email. Attackers use social media, SMS, third-party messaging apps, gaming and even dating apps to phish their victims. Securing iOS, Android, and ChromeOS devices is imperative to protect enterprise data as employees use these devices for both personal and work reasons, which exposes the data to additional risk. Protecting these devices from phishing attacks and malicious apps will mitigate the risk of attackers gaining unauthorized access to your most valuable data.

In addition, organizations also have unbalanced visibility and data access controls between their on-premises and cloud-based resources. As the world becomes more reliant on the cloud, organizations are both enabling on-premises infrastructure and private apps for web-based access or moving those resources to the cloud altogether. Without uniform data protection policies that grant visibility into how users interact with apps and data across the entire infrastructure, organizations have a massive blind spot to the risk of compromised user accounts accessing sensitive data, exfiltrating it, and encrypting it as part of a ransomware attack.

Threats and Phishing encounter rates for India

According to Lookout customer data, almost 30% of enterprise users and over 50% of consumer users were exposed to a mobile phishing attack every quarter of 2021. By the same measure, 2.5% of enterprise users and 11% of consumer users downloaded a malicious mobile app.

Approach to the current situation

The Lookout Security Platform includes the Lookout Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and Mobile Endpoint Security solutions. By integrating Secure Web Gateway, Cloud Access Security Broker and Zero Trust Network Access capabilities with Endpoint Protection and Endpoint Detection and Response into a cloud-native platform, IT security policies for access and data classification can be written once and applied to all traffic passing through the single proxy. The platform also natively delivers Data Loss Prevention, User and Entity Behaviour Analytics, Anti-virus/Anti-malware and Enterprise Digital Right Management to protect data from endpoint to cloud.