The growth of smart phones and tablet market growing craze. Ranging from businessmen to the students, most of those affected by the trend of multifunctional gadgets. This is not without risk."Starting this year there is one statistic from CNN, PC users around the world amounted to approximately 80 million, while smartphone users totaled approximately 105 million. This means the emergence of new security risks," said Gun Suk Ling, Director of Corporate Sales for APAC, Kaspersky Lab, met at the Hotel Le Meridien, Jakarta, Wednesday (23/11/2011).
According to him, the new security risks arise due to the increasing number of smart phone users, because it has not been growing awareness of the possibility of malware attacks on your smart phone.
For example in the gadgets based on Android, Peter M. Beardmore, Senior Director of Product Marketing Kaspersky Lab said, "Only in the intervening four months, malware for Android has increased 4-fold."
Malware may be hiding in the gadget itself, while the trend of consumerism IT is happening lately has boosted the number of users of the gadget itself. Among these, many are using smart phones and tablets as a working device, including connecting the gadget on your PC or corporate server to access the data.
"Companies need to expand their IT security policies, so it can reach all points, including smartphones and tablets," said Gun Suk Ling.
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