Mobile devices are becoming the highest‑trusted endpoints that are the least protected. Phones sit between your people and your most important systems: identity, email, collaboration, and cloud apps. They’re also where modern social engineers are turning their attention, leveraging SMS and messaging services, QR codes, and email-based attack vectors to harvest credentials. Mobile content optimization and small screens make it harder to scrutinize the content of messages, sender details, and imperfect designs, enabling attackers to slip past even the most skeptical and savvy users.
Recognizing this important security imperative, organizations often prioritize taking preventative measures to secure their mobile devices. Mobile devices are typically managed via Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) or Mobile Device Management (MDM) solutions which implement containers, policies, and other controls as a method of preventing the device from creating a security issue. This is a necessary part of the security strategy of course, but it’s not the same thing as security. UEM/MDM tools focus on management, not active defense, leaving gaps across device state, networks, apps, and mobile-first phishing.
That gap matters because phishing and spoofing remain one of the most frequently reported crime types tracked by the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3).1
Mobile Security is more than Mobile Management
Mobile risk doesn’t live in one place. It spans four practical vectors security teams have to handle every day:
- Device: unpatched OS vulnerabilities and compromised states can create direct exposure.
- Network: unsafe Wi‑Fi and rogue connections can enable interception and compromise.
- Apps: risky, malicious, or non‑compliant apps can expose corporate data and user credentials.
- Phishing (“mishing/smishing”): mobile‑delivered lures through channels like SMS and QR codes are built to harvest credentials or push unsafe actions.
Now available: Aurora Mobile Threat Defense
Aurora Mobile Threat Defense is Arctic Wolf’s dedicated security solution for iOS and Android devices. It is designed to deliver real-time protection for mobile devices against malware, malicious and noncompliant apps, rogue network connections, and mobile phishing attacks.
It’s designed to deliver meaningful protection quickly with default configuration — and it can be tuned to match your policies and environment as your program matures.
What Does Aurora Mobile Threat Defense Protect Against?
Aurora Mobile Threat Defense provides dedicated protection for iOS and Android devices across the mobile threat vectors that matter most, including:
- Real‑time attack defense.
- Rogue & unsafe network detection, with the ability to automatically disconnect from networks based on policy and risk signals.
- Identification of non‑compliant apps and mobile vulnerabilities (out‑of‑date OS/apps).
- Mishing attack prevention and malware detection/classification.
Does Aurora Mobile Threat Defense fit with UEM/MDM?
UEM/MDM is essential for device management and Aurora Mobile Threat Defense complements that foundation by providing dedicated threat defense — so you can move beyond just managing devices and focus on securing devices. Aurora Mobile Threat Defense doesn’t require organizations to have a UEM or MDM solution, but it’s strongest when paired with your existing UEM/MDM processes for enrollment, policy, and fleet operations.
Mobile-First Security. Designed for Security and Privacy.
Organizations with bring your own device (BYOD) policies and mixed‑ownership fleets only work when security controls reduce risk without crossing privacy lines. Aurora Mobile Threat Defense is designed with that reality in mind.
Aurora Mobile Threat Defense can be configured to protect employee privacy by prohibiting the collection of personal messages, emails, photos, contacts, call audio, microphone/camera activity, or browsing history.
It’s a practical way to reduce mobile risk without turning mobile security into a user‑trust problem — so security and privacy can scale together.
Who it’s for
Aurora Mobile Threat Defense is designed for organizations that need mobile devices secured equally as traditional endpoints — especially where mobile access to sensitive data is common, and BYOD or mixed ownership is part of reality.
With mobile devices continuing to grow and corporate adoption continues to increase, threat actors are leveraging tried-and-true methods to access sensitive information, and organizations need to do more than just manage mobile risk, they need to secure it.
Check out Aurora Mobile Threat Defense Today
Aurora Mobile Threat Defense is now available globally.
Learn more about Aurora Mobile Threat Defense and the broader Aurora Endpoint Security portfolio at: https://arcticwolf.com/solutions/endpoint-security/. Reach out to your Arctic Wolf representative today to book a demo
Footnotes
- FBI Philadelphia, “FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center Annual Report Released for 2023,” March 11, 2024. https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/philadelphia/news/fbis-internet-crime-complaint-center-annual-report-released-for-2023
By Stephen McKay, Vice President of Product, XDR
