A recent article by Ericka Chick­owski, Contributing Editor at Dark Reading, high­lights the debate that whirls around the hype of mobile malware and the solu­tions we have to fight it.  Jason Baron, partner and director of consulting services at Welsh Consulting, is one of several IT security experts quoted in the article.  Chick­owski writes:

As the explosion in mobile devices hits enter­prise networks in force, the IT security community will need to reinvent the way it addresses mali­cious behavior within software if it is going to stay apace with the risks. The fact is that even though many of today’s mobile devices are essen­tially little computers, the tradi­tional host-based approach the industry has taken with these PC coun­ter­parts might not apply. Aside from the form-factor difference, the way malware writers approach mobile infor­mation theft is shifting, and– besides all that — the line between good appli­ca­tions and bad appli­ca­tions is quickly blurring, experts warn.

Read full article here.

Dec 05, 2011 | 11:48 AM | 0 Comments