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Mobile Phone Security Attacks on Rise

Will Head (vnunet@telecom-digest.org)
Mon, 11 Dec 2006 14:18:54 -0600

Mobile security products to be worth $5bn by 2011
Will Head, vnunet.com 11 Dec 2006

The number of security attacks against mobile phones is increasingly
dramatically, according to new data from Juniper Research.

The analyst firm has identified a raft of risks that can affect mobile
users, including viruses and malware.

These dangers, combined with ever-tightening corporate governance
rules and the increasing use of mobiles to store critical data, will
prompt mobile users to install security products on 247 million mobile
phones, nearly eight per cent of the total, by 2011.

Juniper's latest report also forecasts that mobile phone theft will
continue to rise, despite initiatives by mobile operators and police
forces. The analyst firm expects that nearly four per cent of mobile
phones will be stolen annually by 2011.

Revenues from mobile security products, including antivirus, virtual
private networks, data and file encryption and mobile identity
management applications, are expected to generate almost $5bn worth of
revenue by 2011.

The biggest mobile security market will be in the secure mobile
content sector, where antivirus, anti-spam, anti-spyware and content
filtering will make up 40 per cent of the total market, according to
the report.

Revenue from mobile data and file encryption products is expected to
outstrip the PC market by 2011.

"Initially driven by the data-hungry mobile business user who has seen
the benefits of data services such as email, predominantly on
BlackBerry devices, we will see mobile security products go mainstream
by late 2008 or early 2009 resulting in a doubling of revenues from
2008 to 2010," said Juniper analyst Alan Goode, author of the report.

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