Reports claiming numerous apps distributed through Apple App Store are secretly exfiltrating user data should be an alarm call to enterprise CIOs.
It signals a new battlefront in the eternal enterprise security wars.Theenterprise risk of personal dataOn the surface, the data being extracted is kind of … personal, such as location and browser histories.
Information like that provides additional insight into what individual users are up to.
Why should that concern an enterpriseThat a rhetorical question, of course.
Most enterprise security professionals recognize that any form of data exfiltration poses an overall challenge.