Norton Goes Mobile
Symantec is developing two mobile security apps and a cloud based DNS service. The first, Norton SmartPhone Securty Beta for Android, is scheduled to be available next month and offers some pretty neat features: antimalware protection, call-blocking, and the ability for users to remotely lock or wipe their device via text message in case it gets stolen.
Symantec is developing two mobile security apps and a cloud based DNS service. The first, Norton SmartPhone Securty Beta for Android, is scheduled to be available next month and offers some pretty neat features: antimalware protection, call-blocking, and the ability for users to remotely lock or wipe their device via text message in case it gets stolen.
There are more than 10 billion non-PC devices that connect to the Internet right now -- and that number is expected to grow to almost 20 billion by 2014, according to IDC.
Typically, these devices have little or no security built into them -- nor are users conditioned to think of them as a vector for attacks like those that plague personal computers.
Typically, these devices have little or no security built into them -- nor are users conditioned to think of them as a vector for attacks like those that plague personal computers.
