Wednesday, October 23, 2013

1.3bn smart devices at risk over malware attacks


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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