An estimated 1.3 billion mobile smart
devices may be at risk over malware attacks, according to the recent reports by
Juniper Research, with specialty in identifying and appraising new high growth
market sectors within the mobile ecosystem.
DigitalSENSE Business News gathered from
Juniper that nearly 1.3 billion mobile devices including smartphones, feature phones
and tablets are expected to have mobile security software installed by 2018, that
is, up from around 325 million this year.
The new findings, Juniper Research, showed
that over 80 per cent of the total enterprise and consumer owned smartphone
device base will remain unprotected through 2013, despite a steadily increasing
consumer awareness of mobile security products.
Juniper claimed that the low level of adoption
of security software could be attributed to a number of factors, comprising the
relatively low consumer awareness about online attacks on mobile devices and a
widespread consumer perception that the price of security products is
excessive.
On the mobile security focusing on the
likes of Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) and mCommerce, stressing that Consumer
and Enterprise 2013-2018 report found that security risks are also on the rise
due to an explosion of mobile malware over the last two years.
“It found that cyber criminals are
transitioning their focus from Personal Computers (PCs) onto the mobile
platform - across both enterprise and consumer segments. These findings support
Trend Micro’s data showing that that there will be more than 1 million malwares
in the market by the end of this year,” part of the report highlighted.
Also, the report made available by Michele
Ince, emphasized that steadily increasing consumer awareness, allied to far
greater visibility of product adoption levels, had resulted in rapid service
adoption during H2 2012, leading to higher than anticipated service revenues.
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