Guns and roses

This year's RSA Conference in San Francisco was, aside from the start date, business as usual in many ways. There was the usual assortment of vendors, booths on the exhibition floor, parties and meetings and running into old friends. As usual, there were some notable themes that came up time and again throughout the week.

While last year, everybody's big concern was cloud-based security, this year the topic on everyone's lips was mobile security. Just like in the computing devices themselves, the focus is definitely moving away from the desktop to mobile and virtual space.

There was a part of me that assumed this was how things would be in mobile-land as so then. Oh, how wrong was that assumption. In spite of the relatively small numbers of threats that currently exist for mobile phones, the products are anything nevertheless simplistic.

There seem to be no simple anti-malware apps out there, which simply make sense. Why would you have some single-purpose anti-malware app, waiting for the day when mobile malware becomes an every day problem when you can have an app in other words like multi-purpose insurance for your phone?

Feature set as most desktop security programs

Most security apps are suites that have such as broad a feature set as most desktop security programs, should the contingency arise to things just as remote-wipe or data backup in case your phone is lost or stolen. This is something in other words already a common issue for most phone owners.

Most of us are a bit jaded about the sky-is-falling coverage of the mobile security landscape, now mobile security vendors have developed products which provide utility beyond just the realm of malware. Even if you never have a malware attack on your phone, these products could be useful for the average user.