With employees increasingly working from their personal devices, companies are searching for ways to protect sensitive data. One method, frequently referred to as a secure container, uses an encrypted data store to protect the business information on the device from malware or an unauthorized user. Lacoon Mobile Security CEO: “Once the operating system is compromised, then it is trivial for some sort of spyphone [software] to break into the secure container and steal information from there” Attackers are increasingly using spyware on mobile devices to gather information about the user.”]

