IT departments are expected to buy more IT security
products over the next four years, to support the explosion in
mobile data access.
A new study from Juniper Research predicts that by 2011 users
will install anti-virus, VPN, data and file encryption and mobile
identity management applications on mobile phone devices. Juniper
Research estimates users will spend $5bn on this type of
software.
Report author Alan Goode said, “Initially driven by the
data-hungry mobile business user who has seen the benefits of data
services such as e-mail, predominantly on their Blackberry devices,
we will see mobile security products go mainstream by late
2008/early 2009.”
Identity theft, unauthorised access to corporate networks by
mobile devices, and the growing threat of mobile viruses and
malware is driving demand for mobile security.
