Marble Security Launches Enterprise Mobile Security Service

Security is always an issue. It doesn’t matter if you are a small business or a ridiculously large enterprise; the possibility exists that you could soon face the consequences caused by a cyber attack. Unfortunately, these attacks are gaining speed at an increasing rate.

Hackers and hacktivists use sophisticated strategies to break into corporate networks and especially cloud services to either steal valuable data or simply to disrupt the operation. The increase in use of smartphones and tablets along with the continued use of laptops leaves a gateway open for these types of attacks to enter the company network.

Marble Security is a company that was named by SC Magazine as a finalist for the security industry’s most prestigious award. The company is currently a finalist in the Best Mobile/Portable Device Security category for the 2013 Reader Trust Awards.

SC Magazine’s goal is to arm information security professionals with the in-depth, unbiased business and technical information they need to tackle the countless security challenges they face and establish risk management and compliance postures that underpin overall business strategies.

Just today, May 21, 2013 Marble Security revealed that the company will soon be releasing a new cloud-based mobile security service. This will proactively protect what it calls the mobile perimeter of an enterprise against cyber attacks and data lost before breaches can occur.

Marble Security aims to provide security for companies who are attempting to manage multi-platform programs. With the ever increasing bring your own device (BYOD) trend, there is definitely a need for greater security. That is because BYOD opens so many more gateways for hackers to enter your corporate world.

While companies are allowing more employees to use whatever device gets the job done, about 68 percent of these companies have no policies in place when it comes to BYOD scenarios. According to a Gartner survey, 38 percent of global companies expect to stop supplying mobile devices including PCs to their employees by 2016.

Marble uses a unique approach to mobile security. It employs patented, secure virtual network services, risk-based access control, and policy-based remediation. As new threats get more sophisticated, Marble uses real-time security intelligence that learns and adapts to counter these threats.

You  can easily download the Marble client app to your device. You can then access a secure browser and connect to Marble’s Virtual Private Network (VPN). IT administrators can even manage a company’s mobile risks from a centralized dashboard.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Marble's patented Mobile Perimeter Defense technology (MPD) is the security breakthrough that gives enterprise IT teams unprecedented control to protect users even if a device is infected with malware or used to browse malicious websites. By continuously assessing a massive amount of machine data as well as mobile user and device attributes such as its location, installed apps, current network connections, the MPD technology learns and adapts.

Marble Security Founder and CTO, David Jevans commented, “Mobile device management (MDM) falls short of securing mobile endpoints, and is expensive and hard to manage. Our mobile security approach goes beyond MDM to proactively protect a mobile worker's endpoints against cyberattacks even if they are infected with malware, something MDM solutions do not do. At $3 per user for all their devices any business can afford it, and Marble is low touch for both users and administrators."

The above approach is very good. Supply a product that can adapt and learn in much the same way that hackers work and make it available for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows. Then top it off by offering it for only $3 a month. What you get is maximum protection for a minimal cost.