"These days, as companies and consumers increasingly conduct their business in the cloud, securing virtual identities, browsing activity, and personal data arguably has become more important than securing physical devices," said David Gorodyansky, CEO, AnchorFree. "Now that we've added mobile to the mix - especially in the case of Apple's iPhone, a device that's fairly secure by default - the need to protect the device has been overshadowed by the increasing need to secure our online interactions."
Gorodyansky believes that the days of device infection through floppy disk and thumb drives are long gone, with web and email exchanges providing the most potent routes for attack.
Furthermore, Gorodyansky argues that if both the Web and email are protected by cloud security, the devices in question are likely to be safer than ever.
"As more and more businesses and consumers entrust reams of precious, and highly confidential, data to the cloud, direct threats to devices become less relevant than the threat of compromising our identities or personal data - via Google docs, Dropbox files, passwords, search activities, or sites visited - online," he explained.
With cybercrime spreadingacross the world, the UAE, with its large youthful and tech-savvy population, is becoming increasingly prone.
This year's Norton Cybercrime Report found that more than 1.5 million people in the UAE were affected by cybercrime in the past 12 months, resulting in Dhs1.039bn in direct financial losses. The report also found that 31% adults in the UAE were victims of social or mobile cybercrime in the past twelve months compared to 21% globally.
The UAE's cyber vulnerability is fuelled in part by a high smartphone penetration rate - 62% of mobile phone users in the country according to Google's annual Mobile Planet smartphone study-and a growing affinity for workplace BYOD (Networking vendor Aruba Networks notes that 80% of companies in the region allowed some form of access to personal devices - the highest in the world).
As a consequence, AnchorFree, which has ambitious expansion plans in the MENA, is enjoying a surge in UAE downloads for its Hotspot Shield VPN (virtual private network), which encrypts every accessed web page and provides a secure, private tunnel, preventing hackers from preying on users of public WiFi connections.
The software also provides protection from 3.5 million malware, phishing and SPAM sites.Hotspot Shield comes in two versions: a free service which is supported through advertising and a subscription service without ads. The software has been downloaded by more than 120 million people from 190 countries worldwide.
Available on Apple iOS, and Android devices, in addition to desktop PCs and Macs, Hotspot Shield also compresses data during mobile phone use to speed up the browsing experience and more than double the amount of Web content users can access under their mobile data plans.
"I'm certainly not encouraging businesses to scrap their antivirus protection, but it's essential that companies pay more attention to securing their online activities. By doing so, you'll eliminate many of the threats that antivirus companies try to solve, before these threats ever make it near your devices," Gorodyansky added.
Source: http://www.ameinfo.com/cloud-driving-security-imperative-shift-device-320136
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