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Margins in Mobility –
Ian Kilpatrick, Wick Hill
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Margins in Mobility
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Margins in Mobility
• Market share last Q
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Margins in Mobility
• “The UK smartphone market grew by
over 100 per cent in 2010 and more of
these smart phones are now being taken
into businesses.
This creates a significant threat to
businesses that have adopted a
personal-liable device approach to
smartphone use”
• Pete Cunningham, Canalys
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The Guardian recently reported that 50
Android apps from Android Market
were found to be infected with rootkit
malware called DroidDream, which
could compromise personal data,
taking over the user’s device
A new variant of the
DroidDream Light malware
was discovered on the
Android Market July 13th
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Research just published claims that
around 20% of the 50 000-plus apps in
the Android operating system market
allow third-party software access to
on-phone data, meaning that the
information could used maliciously by
hackers 24th June
Nearly half of the entire
Android Market software
requested user permissions
that researchers would
consider suspicious.
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Good News and Bad News
• Independent research
• One third of users from all the
countries surveyed store
credentials (such as PIN codes,
passwords and user names) to
access personal and corporate
email on their devices
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Password protection for
smartphones is least common
among the British, where only
47 per cent of respondents
use a password on their
device
As many as 52 per cent of
smartphone users from all the
countries surveyed are oblivious
to the existence of antivirus
software for mobile phones
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One interesting detail which emerged
from the survey is that users consider
the risk of losing personal data lower
on a smartphone than on a PC.
According to Kaspersky, this is despite
the fact that around a fifth of all
smartphone users have already
experienced the loss or theft of a
mobile device
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• Google's Android operating system
is one of the most popular mobile
platforms in the market today.
According to new research from
Ulm University, Android is also one
of the most vulnerable platforms,
due to an insecure ClientLogin
protocol
unfortunately, time-to-market pressures
often result in security oversight
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Same Old Same Old
• Deployment
• Problem
• Risk analysis
• Solution
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Opportunity
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Large and growing
Awareness low
High insecurity
Competition weak
Huge growth potential
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Opportunity
It’s nice to have a Green Field
market!
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Kaspersky Lab and Wick Hill
• Are educating the market
• Working to create leads
• Working with partners to seed and
grow this market
• Planning for major growth