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With use of smartphones and tablets on the rise and sales of traditional PCs on the decline, attacks on mobile devices are maturing, says IT research and advisory firm Gartner Inc. By 2017, the focus of endpoint breaches will shift to tablets and smartphones. And, according to Gartner, 75 percent of mobile security breaches will be the result of mobile application misconfiguration and misuse. Common examples of misuse are "jailbreaking" on iOS devices and "rooting" on Android devices. These procedures allow users to access certain device resources that are normally unavailable - and remove app-specific protections and the safe "sandbox" provided by the operating system, putting data at risk. Jailbreaking and rooting can also allow malware to be downloaded to the device, enabling malicious exploits that include extraction of enterprise data. These mobile devices also become prone to brute force attacks on passcodes.