Report Date: December 2010 Prompted by the rapid growth of employee-owned devices, such as laptops and iPads, and significantly more capable smartphones, such as iPhones, Windows Phone 7 and Androids, organizations are becoming increasingly concerned about the potential for data loss and malware introduction from these devices. So far, the threat environment remains very low on these platforms, so anti-malware is not yet an essential on these platforms. However, the abilities to manage these devices, enforce native security functions (for example, passwords, encryption and remote wipe), and simplify ActiveSync integration are moving up the requirements list. McAfee, LANDesk and Check Point are vendors that are beginning to directly address this issue. Mobile device management and security is another domain that sits at the intersection between PC life cycle management (PCLM) tools and EPP suites and is another benefit of these solutions becoming more tightly integrated. Other improvements we detected in this years analysis were focused around improvements in management consoles and reporting and improvements in the breadth of platform coverage (for example, 64-bit Windows 7, SharePoint and Macintosh). Only a few vendors (McAfee and Trend Micro) have addressed the specific needs of virtualization; however, we see this capability increasing in importance to buyers.
Mentions: Symantec, McAfee, Trend Micro, Sophos, Kaspersky Lab, Check Point Software Technologies, LANDesk, BigFix-IBM, Lumension Security, eEye Digital Security, SkyRecon Systems, Panda Security, Eset, CA Technologies, Microsoft, GFI Software
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