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10th May 2008    Current rating: 

This article that appeared in IT Web is pretty interesting and intriguing. Howard Schmidt, president and CEO of R&H Security Consulting made this statement during his keynote speech at the ITWeb Security Summit 2008:

"As we become more dependent on our mobile devices, we'll become more vulnerable to attacks. A new generation of mobile applications, that are easy to use and financially viable, are being developed, but who is looking after the security of these applications? Who is developing anti-virus software and encryption? Not many people are doing it."

Again, this goes back to people trying to combat mobile threats in the same way they handle PC vulnerabilities- it is not effective. Protecting individual applications and devices with anti-virus software is too cumbersome, both for the devices themselves and developers. The easiest, most effective proven solution is to add the layer of protection at the carrier level.

A “hacker for hire” that goes by the clever name “Johnny Cache” agreed with Schmidt’s points, stating:

“Mobile devices are running real operating systems; therefore, they must be treated like computers and have comparable security."

Again, we disagree. But of course, if mobile protections were too difficult to infiltrate, Johnny Cache would be singing the blues so it is obvious to think he wouldn’t want the best protection in place.

I must say though, it’s great to see that mobile security is increasingly being addressed as more and more of as a very real and very serious matter. As we've stated time and time again, it's only going to get worse. 

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