Bring-your-own-device (BYOD) has evolved from an exception to an expectation. Employees, contractors, and partners now access sensitive corporate data from their own smartphones and tablets every day and often through apps IT doesn’t fully control. In a recent Gartner® report titled “Enable BYOD and BYOPC Securely,” published October 23, 2025 by Chris Silva, Gartner states, “Business processes demand access to company data and apps from users’ personal devices or partners’ devices that cannot be directly managed. Secure support for these devices requires infrastructure security leaders to develop controls at the identity, device and app layers to enable productivity from these devices securely.”
The report also states, “To augment the controls at the app and identity levels, focused on configuration, organizations seeking richer device authentication often find it in overlay point solutions.” The Gartner report continues, “Integrate stand-alone mobile app risk intelligence with UEM to provide a finer filter for applications based on their components. This allows for a remediation loop when apps with a particular characteristic (e.g., third-party library, geographic IP-range communications) are detected.”
Q-scout provides this mobile app risk intelligence and integrates with UEM / MDM solutions to fill the mobile app security gap. It continuously analyzes compiled app binaries — not just metadata — to identify hidden risks like unsafe SDKs, data exfiltration patterns, and collusion between apps.
Q-scout capabilities:
- 100% app coverage: Scans and vets every app on a UEM / MDM-managed device, including those from third-party stores, ensuring no threat goes undetected.
- Agentless deployment: Performs deep app analysis off-device with no agents, no user disruption, and no impact on device performance.
- Actionable threat insights: Profiles malicious behaviors like app collusion that lead to unauthorized access to sensitive data or system resources.
- Accurate software inventory: Generates complete SBOMs (Software Bills of Materials), including embedded libraries, to enable detailed and reliable vulnerability analysis.
- Automated risk analysis: Continuously analyzes apps for malicious indicators, reducing manual review time and operational workload.
- Compliance support: Maps app risk assessments to GDPR, OWASP Mobile Top 10, and security standards to streamline audits and insurance evaluations.
To learn more about how Q-scout enables organizations to provide app-level security in BYOD environments, contact us. Click here to access the full Enable BYOD and BYOPC Securely report.
Gartner, “Enable BYOD and BYOPC Securely.” By Chris Silva, 23 October 2025.
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