Encryption software is set to soar

JUNIPER RESEARCH reckons that with the value of enterprise information rocketing almost three quarters of handsets will soon need to have added encryption technology.

Juniper said that almost 80 million corporate devices would need extra security by 2014. The numbers come from the report titled Endpoint Security for Business: Desktops, Laptops & Mobile Devices 2009-2014, and tells us that the largest consumers of such tech will come from the UK, closely followed by the US, China and South East Asia.

So far the researchers tell us that, despite the best efforts of virus and malware writers, mobile devices and their apps have been fairly secure. However it warns that this may change over the coming years.