Canalys forecasts global investment growth into mobile security will reach $795.8M this year, with Y-o-Y growth of 44.2%-- and should be worth $3 billion by 2015.

There is a current lack in mobile security solutions, with only 4% of smartphones and tablets shipping in 2010 having some form of mobile security, according to Canalys-- making such devices easy pickings to hackers.

The analyst predicts mobile security uptake will grow rapidly (to over 20% of WW mobile devices carryin security software by 2015) as enterprises start conforming more strictly Read more...

Imation buys the IronKey hardware business for an undisclosed sum, taking over development and sales of IronKey portable storage devices. 

IronKey is best known for the Cryptochip, a highly-secure flash drive using 256-bit AES encryption and the cloud-based IronKey Enterprise Management Service. 

The company will instead focus resources into software and cloud-based security offerings.

Meanwhile Imation will get 40 IronKey employees, an exclusive license to use IronKey storage security solutions and the license for usage of the IronKey brand on future Read more...

Intel and McAfee reveal DeepSAFE at the Intel Developers Forum 2011-- technology allowing the development of security products taking advantage of a "deeper" security footprint. 

Sitting below the OS, DeepSAFE provides what McAfee calls a "vantage point" in the detection and prevention of stealthy advanced persistent threats (APTs) and malware (unlike current security techniques running within the OS). 

The technology will not be embedded into Intel processors, but is instead "hardware assisted", taking advantage of Intel Core processor hardware Read more...

The global content security gateway appliance and software market grows by 8% Q-o-Q in Q2 2011, reaching revenues of $766M according to Infonetics Research-- a typical rebound following a seasonally soft Q1.

The market also shows Y-o-Y growth of 18% in Q2 2011, and has a total value of $2.7Bn for 2010 (up by 19% from 2009)-- with the analyst predicting it will grow to $3.9Bn by 2015.

Meanwhile the WW Q2 2011 network security appliance and software market grows by  4% Y-o-Y, reaching $1.37Bn-- with no signs of slowdown for H2 2011, at least when i Read more...