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Mobile security practice launched by Trustwave

Trustwave, a company specializing in network data and security solutions for businesses, has introduces a new mobile security practice designed to help enterprises embrace the concept of bring-your-own-device (BYOD). As the world becomes more acclimated to mobile technology, workers are beginning to make use of their mobile devices more frequently. Enterprises are beginning to see their employees use smartphones and tablets to conduct business, increasing the need for mobile security solutions that account for the BYOD trend.

Practice to help enterprises become more secure

The new practice from Trustwave offers compliance and risk services that are meant to make mobile devices more secure. It also offers a technology suite that provides enterprises with the solutions they need to make their data networks more secure and guard against the loss or exploitation of data. The practice also makes Trustwave’s SpiderLabs services available. SpiderLabs was developed by a dedicated team of ethical hackers and it is designed to expose the threats that exist in mobile devices and other systems.

Businesses growing more concerned over mobile security

People have become inseparable from their mobile devices, a fact that has caused some concern in the world of business. Because a growing number of people are beginning to conduct business on their mobile devices, the need for more comprehensive mobile security is becoming a serious issue. If businesses are not prepared to tackle the issues that exist in mobile security, they may find themselves exposed to dangerous risks and could become an ideal target for hackers and other malicious parties.

Digital threats gaining more attention in business

While mobile technology has proven to be a boon for many people, it has also exposed them to the risks that have long existed in the digital realm. These risks are not new, having been around since the inception of the Internet. Only recently have serious efforts been made to make mobile devices more secure against these threats, however, and mobile security is slowing gaining prominence within the world of business.

The closing of the gap between the Microsoft operating system and iOS and Android has surprised many.

The most recent technology news report has been released based on the research conducted by Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, which has indicated that Windows is continuing to make promising gains within the smartphone market.

The operating system still represents only a small percentage of smartphone sales, but it is growing.

Even though the Windows smartphone market share in terms of sales was only 5.6 percent during this year’s first quarter – according to the Kantar findings – this still represented an important growth of 1.9 percent over the market when compared to the same time in 2012. This is a sizeable increase in a market where the dominant players have a very firm hold on their territory.

The technology news still shows that almost half of all smartphones sales are of Android devices.

This latest technology news statement showed that 49.3 percent of all smartphone sales are devices run on the Android operating system. This makes it, by far, the leader in the market. At the same time, though, that operating system saw only a small growth in the first quarter of 2013 when compared with the first quarter of 2012. Furthermore, its current rate of growth has dropped when compared to the three months that ended at the close of February. It fell by 1.9 percent.

iOS is continuing to hold its second place position, as per this technology news. It still has 43.7 percent of the smartphone sales. That said, the sale of devices based on this operating system have also dropped, as they were down throughout the entire length of the first quarter of the year.

According to Mary-Ann Parlato, a Kantar analyst, “As iOS and Android continue to battle it out for top selling smartphone OS, we have seen Windows steadily grow over the past year and is now at its highest sales share figure so far.” She went on to add to her technology news statement by saying that it appears that Windows is growing in strength through its appeal to first time smartphone buyers.