At the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, mobile carriers reported on a growing number of attacks against their wireless devices, leading to speculation that a rise in attacks against wireless-enabled enterprise customers won't be far behind. According to a McAfee report, the number of carriers spending more than $200,000 on new security measures in 2006 increased by 100 percent from the number spending that amount on new measures in 2005. Unfortunately for the carriers, not only have attacks increased, but customer dissatisfaction is listed as the most common negative side-effect from new security measures.
For more on enterprise wireless security:
- read the article at Network Computing
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