The Mobile App Security Working Group, a nonprofit...

The Mobile App Security Working Group, a nonprofit association of mobility, security and enterprise stakeholders, formed to “simplify and accelerate the deployment of secure mobile apps in all kinds of environments, on all kinds of devices,” said smart device security firm Mocana Thursday. That company, McAfee, FireEye, SAP and Wind River are among the group’s charter members. “It is absolutely necessary for the industry to come together and establish a strong common foundation for mobile app security,” said Chenxi Wang, McAfee vice president-market intelligence, in a Mocana news release. The group hopes to begin its work by creating a set of “common metrics that enterprise users and IT administrators can employ to compare the security postures of different mobile apps, independent of platform, developer or security vendor,” Mocana said.