Mobile Security and the Bring Your Own Device policy: market, challenges, key vendors, drivers and more.

Our mobile-driven world is more and more marked by the requirements of performance and productivity, privacy and security, sophisticated and targeted cyberattacks.  

For the requirements of performance and productivity for instance, one can observe the increased adoption of the Bring Your Own Device policy. 

In fact a growing number of enterprises are adopting the BYOD concept, by implementing the BYOD policy, that helps enterprises inter alia, reduce expenditure on communication devices. 

When it comes to Mobile Security, Connectikpeople.co observes that the high adoption of advanced mobile devices drives the growth of the Global Mobile Security market.

The number of unit shipments of smartphones, and tablets, has increased significantly. However the risk of the obsolescence of security solutions remains one of the major challenges.

End-users are reluctant to invest in mobile security solutions susceptible to quickly become outdated because of the entry of new and more advanced security threats.

Key Vendors include: AVG Technologies, Kaspersky Lab, McAfee and Symantec.