Black Mask

   M obile security is at the top of every company's worry list these days — and for good reason: Nearly all workers now routinely access corporate data from smartphones, and that means keeping sensitive info out of the wrong hands is an increasingly intricate puzzle. The stakes, suffice it to say, are higher than ever: The average cost of a corporate data breach is a whopping $3.86 million, according to a  2018 report  by the Ponemon Institute. That's 6.4 percent more than the estimated cost just one year earlier.  While it's easy to focus on the sensational subject of malware, the truth is that mobile malware infections are incredibly uncommon in the real world — with your odds of being infected significantly less than your odds of being struck by lightning, according to  one estimate . That's thanks to both  the nature of mobile malware  and the inherent protections built into modern mobile operating systems. The more realistic mobi...