RSA CEO Rohit Ghai on Authenticating Users to Mobile Devices - BankInfoSecurity.com

How to Defend BYOD Devices Without Installing Software oregon Creating Friction Michael Novinson (MichaelNovinson) • November 21, 2022    

Rohit Ghai, CEO, RSA

The long-standing disagreement betwixt mobile app detection and individuality and entree absorption has fueled cyber incidents and breaches arsenic distant enactment has expanded.

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Workers utilizing idiosyncratic smartphones don't privation to instal firm endpoint absorption products but inactive request to guarantee some idiosyncratic and instrumentality are protected portion carrying retired concern functions, says RSA CEO Rohit Ghai. To lick this communal vulnerability, employers request exertion that tin safeguard idiosyncratic mobile devices without involving the company's information operations squad oregon interfering with the user's experience, Ghai says (see: RSA CEO Rohit Ghai: 'Disruptions Catalyze Transformation').

"If this is not a company-managed device, you don't person arsenic overmuch assurance astir whether the instrumentality has been jailbroken, if it's been compromised oregon if it's successful the possession of the existent idiosyncratic you're trying to authenticate," Ghai says. "That deficiency of assurance creates vulnerability successful presumption of authentication, due to the fact that this compromised instrumentality could perchance beryllium utilized to entree delicate information successful the corporation."

In this video interrogation with Information Security Media Group, Ghai discusses:

• What's changed astir detecting threats connected mobile devices;
• Drivers and opportunities for passwordless authentication;
• The astir in-demand services for RSA's authentication products.

Prior to the September 2020 acquisition of RSA by Symphony Technology Group, Ghai served arsenic president of RSA during its tenure arsenic a Dell Technologies business. He antecedently served arsenic president of Dell EMC's Enterprise Content Division, wherever helium revitalized the portfolio for the integer epoch done strategical partnerships and acquisitions. Ghai was liable for each aspects of the ECD business, including income and services, transmission strategy, merchandise development, marketing, finance, enactment and lawsuit success. He joined Dell EMC successful December 2009 to tally merchandise improvement and was main operating serviceman of ECD anterior to becoming president. Ghai joined Dell EMC from Symantec, wherever helium held a assortment of elder engineering and wide absorption roles. Previously, helium worked astatine Computer Associates successful a fig of elder absorption roles successful the BrightStor and eTrust concern units, and helium led the CA India operations arsenic main exertion officer. Ghai joined CA done the acquisition of Cheyenne Software, a startup successful the backup and information extortion space.