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Mobility and Convergence, Virus and Malware
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From the mSecurity Survey 2009 Part 2 - Mobile Virus/Malware:
Mobility and convergence will be two of the biggest challenges for information security professionals over the coming years. Employees and customers alike are using high-powered Smartphones, such as the iPhone and Google’s Android, that can access data over high-speed radio networks (3G and HSDPA) and WiFi. They can store gigabytes of data on internal flash memory and removable storage media and run enterprise applications. In short, they have the opportunity to transform the way that we carry out business and access enterprise information.
More and more organisations are allowing their employees to use ‘open’ mobile phones, i.e. mobile phones running operating systems that allow the user to download applications and access dual networks, GSM and WiFi, to be used for business purposes.
62 percent of company mobile phones are procured by an office management function and only 40 percent of information security professionals have any input into their purchase.
13 percent of organisations currently protect their mobile phones against the threat of mobile phone viruses. This figure is set to rise to 54 percent by the end of 2010 as organisations feel that the threat from mobile phone viruses will increase.
GI believes that the threat from mobile viruses is currently low but with the rising adoption of datacentric applications on Smartphones, including financial services, GI feels that the threat will rise from 2010 onwards.
In the last couple of years the percentage of mobile messaging traffic (SMS/MMS/Email) that is defined as spam or malware has risen from approximately 2% to between 20-30% of total traffic – and between 14-22% of this figure is considered to be malicious.
Last year’s iPhone worms could be just the start of a concerted attack on Smartphones. The threat is increased by the proliferation of mobile App stores with users downloading applications, most of them free, to their Smartphones.
GI believes that companies must seriously consider the consequences of an unprotected corporate mobile phone being infected with malware that could potentially upload all of that phone’s data to a criminal server.
Register free to access the report: Goode Intelligence
From the mSecurity Survey 2009 Part 2 - Mobile Virus/Malware:
Mobility and convergence will be two of the biggest challenges for information security professionals over the coming years. Employees and customers alike are using high-powered Smartphones, such as the iPhone and Google’s Android, that can access data over high-speed radio networks (3G and HSDPA) and WiFi. They can store gigabytes of data on internal flash memory and removable storage media and run enterprise applications. In short, they have the opportunity to transform the way that we carry out business and access enterprise information.
More and more organisations are allowing their employees to use ‘open’ mobile phones, i.e. mobile phones running operating systems that allow the user to download applications and access dual networks, GSM and WiFi, to be used for business purposes.
62 percent of company mobile phones are procured by an office management function and only 40 percent of information security professionals have any input into their purchase.
13 percent of organisations currently protect their mobile phones against the threat of mobile phone viruses. This figure is set to rise to 54 percent by the end of 2010 as organisations feel that the threat from mobile phone viruses will increase.
GI believes that the threat from mobile viruses is currently low but with the rising adoption of datacentric applications on Smartphones, including financial services, GI feels that the threat will rise from 2010 onwards.
In the last couple of years the percentage of mobile messaging traffic (SMS/MMS/Email) that is defined as spam or malware has risen from approximately 2% to between 20-30% of total traffic – and between 14-22% of this figure is considered to be malicious.
Last year’s iPhone worms could be just the start of a concerted attack on Smartphones. The threat is increased by the proliferation of mobile App stores with users downloading applications, most of them free, to their Smartphones.
GI believes that companies must seriously consider the consequences of an unprotected corporate mobile phone being infected with malware that could potentially upload all of that phone’s data to a criminal server.
Register free to access the report: Goode Intelligence
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