IBM provides security for corporate mobile devices

IBM offers a new service for securing phones and tablets in large companies. With the so-called Hosted Mobile Device Security Management, the company wants enterprises to help secure their business data.

The package includes security software for smartphones and tablets, that malware must be prevented and any suspicious applications to detect and remove. In addition, IBM provides the platform for remote management, which allows the user activity monitoring can be and devices located and at a distance lock on it.

The service is not yet available. IBM is the software release for iOS, Android, Blackberry, Symbian and Microsoft Windows Mobile. It is unknown whether Big Blue is also working on a version for Windows Phone. According to IBM, businesses are more vulnerable to loss of data as employees become more mobile, work.

IBM focuses more and more on security software for enterprise. The company claims over the past ten years more than ten acquisitions in the area of security to have done. At the beginning of October took IBM, the private security company Q1 Labs, which deals with intelligent systems, which, for example, behaviour that deviates from the security policy in a company can be observed, such as the access of information by employees who do not have permission.