Is Secure Mobility An Oxymoron

Just two weeks ago the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology concluded that mobiledevices — smartphones and tablets — commonly used to capture, share and accessour most sensitive healthcare data are overall not secure enough to keephackers at bay. They say the most private details of our lives are not safe from easy access by strangers’ eyes despite the security capabilities frequently touted on consumer and enterprise mobile devices: Two-factor authentication, fingerprint scanners, voice recognition, etc. However, this issue is far from exclusive to healthcare.