Mobile & IoT Security

Mobile and IoT security addresses the unique challenges of securing billions of connected devices — from smartphones and tablets to smart home sensors, medical devices, industrial IoT gateways, and connected vehicles. These devices expand the attack surface dramatically, often running constrained operating systems with limited patching capabilities, communicating over wireless protocols with varying security properties, and collecting sensitive data in environments where physical access by adversaries is common.

Mobile security encompasses securing both the devices themselves (via Mobile Device Management/MDM solutions, OS-level controls, and hardware security features) and the applications that run on them. Mobile app vulnerabilities — insecure data storage, improper certificate validation, hardcoded credentials, and insecure inter-process communication — are cataloged by the OWASP Mobile Top 10 and tested using frameworks like the OWASP Mobile Application Security Testing Guide (MASTG).

IoT security introduces additional complexity with resource-constrained devices that may lack the processing power for strong encryption, use proprietary protocols (Zigbee, Z-Wave, BLE, MQTT, CoAP), ship with default credentials, and have firmware that is rarely updated. The EU Cyber Resilience Act and NIST IoT guidelines are driving manufacturers toward security by design, but the installed base of insecure IoT devices remains enormous.