14 DAY TRIAL // How many of you have on your mobile phones an installed anti-virus or firewall? A security solution of any type? As a study made by Juniper Research proves, you shouldn't be that many. As the study also says, the security attacks on the more than vulnerable mobile phones have increased in number day by day and so the threat of you or me being the victim of a mobile virus or of any other type of malware has also increased exponentially.
This situation has reached alarming proportions and thus the mobile security market will also grow to be able to protect the mobile users from identity theft or loss of critical data stored on the mobile devices. How many phones will have at least a mobile security product installed until, let's say, 2011? Almost 8 % of the total number of phones available, and this means 247 million handsets will have less reasons to fear they will get hijacked.
Furthermore, just to remind us anyone can be the victim of such ill intended actions, the president Bush's former cyber security advisor, Richard Clarke, has declared that the attention of the hackers and other type of cyber criminals will be focused on the less protected and more likely to be lost or stolen mobile phones. This problem couldn't get any bigger if you consider the fact that, during this year, the number of cellphones compared to the number of personal computers around the world has reached a proportion of 5 to 1.
What does the Juniper Research report say related to this increasing security problem? It says the number of mobile phones will rise to a share of 4 % of the phones being stolen until 2011, despite all the actions the police and mobile carriers will take against this type of theft.
It also says the revenue of the mobile security market will reach a whopping 5 billion $ per year until 2011, the main products contributing to this immense profit being the anti-virus solutions, the data and file encryption softwares and the mobile identity management applications.
The ones that will take the largest bite of this always increasing market, almost 40% of the total, will be the mobile content security solutions, respectively the anti-virus, anti-spam, anti-spyware and the content filtering softwares. What does all this information mean after all? They tell us that the revenues obtained by the security solution developers for the mobile market will earn profits that will surpass the personal computer market until 2011.
We were all expecting such a thing to happen very soon, but not that soon, weren't we?