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organisations and individuals to constantly update their onnectivity is a basic need today and with virus scans. Vincent Oh, Regional Pre-Sales Director, McAfee increasing mobility, it is in demand anySEA & India says, “Surreptitious installation of malware where, anytime. People all across the globe are in a seemingly harmless application on a smartphone can becoming increasingly tech savvy and we are inadvertently lead to costly corporate data breaches as it witnessing a trend of mass adoption of mobilallows cyber criminals to access valuable information via ity in most organisations. Employees are not only embraccorporate networks.” ing gadgets like smartphones, laptops, tablets, iPads, According to International Data Corporation iPhones, etc., but also using these (IDC), over 10 bn non-PC devices are connected to devices extensively to access critical the internet today, and this number is expected to apps, such as ERP, CRM, intranets, grow to almost 20 bn by 2014. Analysts such as ABI customer information and personal/ Research estimate that the number of smartphones corporate calendar. No wonder, IT protected by advanced security software will managers are a worried lot, with new non-PC increase five-fold over the next five years and will security threats emerging over the o t s e ic exceed $4 bn by 2014. mobile platform. dev t c McAfee discovers about 60,000 conne unique samples of malware everyday eb to the w and hence, it’s a challenge for
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