FW: NEWSBANK: Personally owned mobile devices on the rise in the enterprise

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From: Jamz Yaneza (RD-US)
Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2010 3:53:25 PM
To: Franz Hinner (MKT-US); Greg Jensen (MKT-US); Paul Ferguson (RD-US)
Cc: David Perry (MKT-US); Jia-Bing Cheng (RD-US-ENT); Newsbank
Subject: Re: NEWSBANK: Personally owned mobile devices on the rise in the enterprise
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Lets not get stuck with old versions of mobile operating systems or these are traditionally perceived, we have products and even services/deals in the pipe that support those.  Today’s true “mobile OS” supports various hardware platforms both big and small .... and even those that roll. :-))


Look to the (very near) future where the following five-(5) platforms are going:

[Microsoft] Windows Phone 7 – applications built for this will _not_ be backward compatible to Windows Mobile 6.x; tight integration with Xbox Live (for gaming and socialnets) and Zune (for HD media content) plus embedded installations in Ford-branded vehicles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Mobile#Windows_Phone_7

[Nokia+Intel] MeeGo – this is a merging of the previous Maemo 6 (Nokia Debian) and Moblin (Intel Fedora) projects which will provide a unified netbook/handset/tablet/in-vehicle platform from which tight interaction can be built upon. Yes, SymbianOS will soon die for newer smartphone devices.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeeGo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maemo#Naming

[Google] Android – there are disagreements on how to properly implement 2.1 (Éclair) versus the new 2.2 (Froyo) and devices need special hacking to be able to even reach the Android Marketplace. Not a good sign for the future of this OS given that even Google has fully branched from the original Linux kernel tree :-(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)#Restrictions_and_issues

[Google] Chrome – originally intended for netbooks, strong potential to merge with Android (Froyo?) to provide the needed uniformity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome_OS#Relationship_to_Android

[Palm] WebOS – now part of HP’s plethora and moving straight away from previous dependence on Windows Mobile for its ipaQ line of mobile devices this is another contending platform what integrates well with Microsoft enterprise products.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebOS#HP_and_webOS

Extra:
[Apple] iOS 4 + Jailbroken -  although Apple will still have primary control over the OS the simple fact is that it is now trivial to install other Debian (through Cydia) applications and services to extend your mobile device.
http://www.copyright.gov/1201/2010/Librarian-of-Congress-1201-Statement.html

[RIM] Blackberry + international governments – and if you’ve been reading the last few weeks a demand that the traffic be decrypted or the flow revamped such that singular dependency on servers in Canada be broken. The large walled garden is at the verge of accepting new _visitors_ to the party or else its going to dance to the Backstreet Boys’ ... Bye, bye, bye.


Cheers,
Jamz (resident mobile geek)


Threat Research Manager
Trend Micro, Inc.





On 8/7/10 11:46 AM, "Franz Hinner (MKT-US)" <franz_hinner@trendmicro.com> wrote:

I agree with Greg,
The embedded market is very interesting, even so I believe the security issues for these devices are different. The Mobile device challenges is out of my perspective a true business issue, as more and more devices are added and security is circumvented. As an example, with a little knowledge I can connect my iPad or iPhone without any major problems to our internal network. With the security holes in the iOS platform this can easily lead to infection or worse allowing a hacked device to expose the network.
 
In addition the mail and exchange server settings require a simple setup and bit to be set in your exchange profiles, after that is done I can basically hook up any device with the same settings directly into our mail instances. I believe these issues are a great opportunity for us to protect, rather than (sorry don’t mean to offend anybody) the SmartSurf iPhone app that is basically a slower browser for the iPhone, but is exposed to the same Safari holes than the apple browser.
 

Best regards,
Franz
 

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From: Greg Jensen (MKT-US)
Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 08:20
To: Paul Ferguson (RD-US)
Cc: David Perry (MKT-US); Franz Hinner (MKT-US); Jia-Bing Cheng (RD-US-ENT); Newsbank
Subject: Re: NEWSBANK: Personally owned mobile devices on the rise in the enterprise


I would agree on the window mobile position, however, I would be looking hard at the underlying Windows CE under the covers. That is the embedded flavor which supports hundreds of types of embedded devices, such as RF scanners, Credit Card terminals...etc.  Next time you go to Target and swipe your card, you are swiping it across a Windows CE device.

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On Aug 6, 2010, at 11:11 PM, "Paul Ferguson (RD-US)" <Paul_Ferguson@trendmicro.com> wrote:

One more thought: I wouldn’t count on any Windows Mobile successes – they have shown that their consumer vision is somewhat… incoherent (for example, the ill-fated Kin).
 
-ferg
 
 

From: Paul Ferguson (RD-US)
Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 9:08 PM
To: David Perry (MKT-US); Franz Hinner (MKT-US); Jia-Bing Cheng (RD-US-ENT)
Cc: Newsbank
Subject: RE: NEWSBANK: Personally owned mobile devices on the rise in the enterprise

Actually, the discussion we have been having within FTR the past couple of days is reminiscent of the “I’m a PC” and “I’m a Mac” situation, but instead of PC and MAC, the evolving “superpowers” in consumer smartphone OSs appears to be “I’m an iOS” and “I’m a Droid”.
 
Of course, there is still a lot of Symbian OS out there, but we’re forecasting iOS and Android to be the *real* heavyweights in the mobile OS space, I think.
 
-ferg
 

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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Threat Research,
 CoreTech Engineering
 Trend Micro, Inc., Cupertino, California USA


From: David Perry (MKT-US)
Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 9:02 PM
To: Franz Hinner (MKT-US); Jia-Bing Cheng (RD-US-ENT); Newsbank
Subject: RE: NEWSBANK: Personally owned mobile devices on the rise in the enterprise

Franz, we make a malware scanner for windows mobile and another for symbian 7.  We used to make one for Palm OS.