TENAFLY, N.J. – The establishment of the Mobile App Security Working Group, was announced at the Amphion Forum in San Francisco last week. Member companies will collaborate to develop security standards for mobile applications that interact with each other. The MAS charter members are Mocana, SAP, FireEye, McAfee and Wind River.
The rise of connectivity between industrial control systems is stimulating the need to develop these standards to govern secure mobile apps on all kinds of devices used in all sorts of environments. These situations may range from a war zone to a hospital emergency room, from a power plant to an automobile factory floor, explained AJ Shipley, Senior Director of Security Solutions at Wind River, an Intel subsidiary. One of the conference keynote speakers, Shipley said Intel forecasts there will be 15 billion connected devices online by 2015.
?The development of mobile apps in all kinds of industries with enterprise, military and consumer end users is only going to continue to accelerate,? Shipley added.
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