Lookout announced new features for its Mobile Threat Defense (MTD) solution, Lookout Mobile Endpoint Security. These advancements provide comprehensive protection against two fast-growing advanced social engineering tactics: smishing (SMS phishing) and executive impersonation fraud texts.
Lookout Mobile Endpoint Security’s new Smishing and Executive Impersonation Protection features for iOS and Android provide a critical layer to the modern defense-in-depth security strategy with proactive protections against social engineering and executive impersonation attacks.
The proactive design of these new features flag suspicious messages before employees can engage with them, significantly reducing the risk of a successful attack by the threat actor.
- Executive Impersonation Protection: Threat actors use tools such as sales prospecting and social networking apps to gather phone numbers and organizational structures, targeting employees with phishing texts posing as senior executives. Lookout’s Executive Impersonation Protection proactively protects against these attacks by identifying and alerting you of text messages from unknown phone numbers that do not match those of an organization’s executives.
- Advanced Smishing Protection: Lookout is the first MTD solution that proactively and immediately notifies end users when they receive a message that contains a malicious link on both iOS and Android. In addition to the proactive smishing protections, Lookout will block any URL that is tapped on in any application with its industry-leading Phishing and Content Protection – embodying the modern defense-in-depth capabilities needed for today’s complex threat landscape.
- Admin Visibility and Reporting: Lookout Mobile Endpoint Security is the first MTD solution to provide timely visibility into coordinated smishing or executive impersonation attacks as they occur, along with reporting capabilities within the security admin’s console.
“In recent conversations with customers and industry analysts, we’ve been told that smishing and executive impersonation are two of the most frustrating security challenges to deal with,” said Firas Azmeh, President, Mobile Endpoint Security, Lookout. “Knowing your organization is under attack from a targeted threat is critical for today’s security teams, so by combining all three of these solutions into one release, we’re helping our customers know as soon as their employees are being targeted en masse so they can prevent phishing incidents, mitigate damage and protect organizational data.”
