Analysis: Mobile workers present moving targets

Charlee Gothard
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With potentially valuable business data increasingly finding its way onto smartphones and tablets, are these devices under growing threat of attack?

Various studies agree that 2013 may be the year that use of mobile devices finally overtakes that of desktop PCs in the enterprise space. If so, it seems only natural to expect more malware attacks...

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