Are smartphones the new cyber threat vector?

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By: Mark Pomerleau 

Recent events have brought to the forefront the vulnerability and threat vector smartphones present.

“The very things that make mobile devices such a productivity tool are the exact same things that make them a big target for espionage and for malicious activity,” Kiersten Todt — president and managing partner at Liberty Group Ventures and resident scholar at the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Cyber Law, Policy and Security — said Oct. 24 in Baltimore, Md., at the annual MilCom conference hosted by AFCEA.