In some ways, mobile health security safeguards haven’t changed much for quite some time. Making sure that tablets and phones are protected against becoming easy network intrusion points is a given. Also seeing to it that such devices use strong passwords and encrypted data exchange whenever possible is a must.
But increasingly, as mobile apps become more tightly knit with enterprise infrastructure, there’s more security issues to consider. After all, we’re increasingly talking about mission-critical apps which rely on ongoing access to sensitive enterprise networks. Now more than ever, enterprises must come up with strategies which control how data flows into the enterprise network.