Given the increasingly frequent leaks affecting many companies, it is not surprising that companies are focusing all their efforts on strengthen the security of your systems. Without a doubt, 2024 is a particularly serious year in terms of data leaks: only this year have we become aware of leaks from companies such as Iberdrola, Banco Santander or Ticketmaster, to give some of the most relevant examples.
Microsoft wants to avoid cybersecurity problems at all costs and has implemented a measure that has attracted a lot of attention. As we were able to read in Bloomberg, the company’s employees in China will not They will be able to use Android phones
The use of Android devices will not be allowed from this September
Bloomberg has had access to an internal document in which Microsoft announces the new measure that will come into force from this same month of September and appears to be related to the employee identification process, which uses Microsoft Authenticator and Identity Pass to log in to their corporate accounts.
The measure comes within the framework of the Secure Future Initiative (SFI), an initiative presented at the end of last year that the company describes as “a new generation of cybersecurity protection” and with which it intends to be able to anticipate and adapt to increasingly sophisticated threats.
Apparently, the reason the company doesn’t want its employees to continue using Android has to do with the App Store fragmentation Android in China, a country where Google Play is not available (unlike the App Store). This forces Android users to download apps through the stores of manufacturers like Huawei or Xiaomi.
Since smart phones Android in China can’t use Google services, Microsoft has made the decision prohibit its use in the corporate environment
At least for now, Microsoft has not made any public comments regarding this decision. Looking back, the company announced earlier this year that it had been the victim of a Russia-related cyberattack, although that is not the only cybersecurity issue it has encountered recently: Shortly after, we learned that the credentials of the company’s executives and its systems had been exposed to the internet due to a bug.
By | Bloomberg
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