DHS ­­official: Mobile app market must adjust to meet secure-by-design efforts

A senior DHS cyber official emphasized the need for mobile devices to fall in line with secure-by-design efforts at a recent think tank event, while urging industry to adequately address security before rushing to put out new apps in the mobile marketplace.

“This world we live in where we are first to market instead of first to security has resulted in a really unstable cybersecurity ecosystem” for mobile applications, DHS’ Iranga Kahangama said at a Wednesday event hosted by...