Threats to mobile phones are set to drive up revenues
for security products to almost $5bn (£2.54bn) in the next five
years, industry analysts have predicted.
A report from analyst firm Juniper Research said revenues from
mobile security products, including anti-virus software, data and
file encryption and mobile identity management applications, would
hit almost $5bn by 2011.
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 or
early 2009, resulting in a doubling of revenues from 2008 to
2010."
The biggest market would be for secure mobile content products,
with anti-virus, anti-spam, anti-spyware and content filtering
products accounting for 40% of the total mobile security
market.
The report added that revenues from mobile data and file
encryption products were expected to outstrip those for the PC
encryption market by 2011, while the mobile identity and access
management market would produce revenues of $1.36bn.
Mobile phone thefts would continue to increase, despite
initiatives by mobile operators and police, the Juniper report
added.
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