According to a study by the Ponemon Institute, today’s large companies each spend an average of $34 million annually to develop mobile apps we use to shop, bank and more. However, only an average of 5.5% of this immense budget is spent on securing these apps against hackers and security breaches. For more information, visit http://ibm.co/1LwTYkB.

1. Mobile Insecurity
50%of companies
have zero budget
dedicated to
securing their
mobile apps.1
Shouldn’t we be doing more to protect our
security when using mobile apps?
Find out more:
securityintelligence.com/mobile-insecurity
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1
The State of Mobile Application Insecurity; The Ponemon Institute
2
www.statista.com/statistics/217141/super-bowl-weekend-related-consumer-spending-in-the-us/
3
money.cnn.com/2015/02/11/news/companies/lottery-spending/
4
www.forbes.com/sites/stevecooper/2013/10/22/halloween-by-the-numbers/
5
Arxan Technologies, www.arxan.com/assets/1/7/Arxan_Application_Protection_with_IBM_Trusteer_-_Solution_Brief.pdf
6
IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Quarterly 1Q 2015, http://ibm.co/1wEMKV3
$18 billion:
sport event
tickets3
$14 billion:
Super Bowl
XLIX food,
drinks, decor
and product2
$13 billion:
video games3
$2 billion:
Halloween
candy4
$330 million:
pet costumes4
$1.8 million:
app security1
Today’s large companies* each
spend an average of $34 million
annually to develop mobile apps
we use to shop, bank and more.
However, only an average of 5.5%
of this immense budget is spent
on securing these apps against
hackers and security breaches.1
*including many in the Fortune 500
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1 billionpersonal data records were
compromised by cyber-attacks
in 2014,5
and at any given time
mobile malware is affecting
11.6millionmobile devices.6
of companies
do not scan
the code in their mobile apps
for security vulnerabilities.1
40%
$70 billion:
spent on
lottery
tickets in
20143
How does this stack up
against other things on which
money is spent?
On average, a company tests less
than half of the mobile
apps they build, and 33%never test apps to ensure they’re secure.1