Seeing is believing: Smartphones vulnerable like it's 1995

Such is the case with this image courtesy of device security vendor Mocana (see image below), which shows the deployment levels of PCs in 1995 -- the moment in time when computer viruses began to become a problem -- and mobile devices in 2011.

The image supports a Mocana survey, which overall found that:

...companies know they aren’t prepared to handle device security breaches – even the ones that are already happening, such as the seemingly legitimate Android apps that carried a malicious "Trojan" that were downloaded more than 50,000 times over the course of a few days from the Android Market. The Mocana survey suggests that companies don’t yet have the security tools or expertise in place to handle device security problems. But organizations seem to be going “full steam ahead” with device rollouts, anyway – which may dramatically increase the business, financial and liability impacts of future device security breaches.

Here’s a snapshot of the threat: