Six Key Guidelines for Securing Mobile Banking Apps

More than 40 million U.S. consumers will be using mobile banking by 2012, The Tower Group research firm predicts. Protecting confidential data on mobile devices presents a number of special challenges.

For example, most mobile devices do not delete data in the same way that laptop computers do, increasing the risk that someone could access confidential data if it is not properly encrypted. This brief white paper provides six key guidelines for developing and maintaining secure mobile banking apps.