IBM, in mobile security drive, teams with Juniper on smartphone protection services.

"IBM Security Services said it would team with Juniper Networks to offer managed services for Apple iOS, Android, Symbian, Blackberry OS and Windows through the Juniper Networks Junos Pulse Mobile Security Suite. The service, IBM says integrates policy-based enforcement that prevents smartphones from accessing key corporate resources unless required security policies and applications are in place...

Meanwhile IBM said it is researching and prototyping technologies to manage security and compliance challenges involving mobile smart phones, such as Android-based devices. With one such prototype system, using a single management platform, organizations will be able to extend management across any mobile device on their network, IBM stated. Customers will quickly be able to remotely set policies, monitor employees' devices to identify potential data compromise and wipe data off the devices if they are lost or stolen, IBM stated.

IBM added that researchers are also looking for ways to help customers secure instrumented endpoints for smart electrical meters. By 2015, it is expected that more than 300 million smart meters will be deployed worldwide and IBM expects work from this research project to let customers manage and secure a meter remotely, while helping to ensure they are also tamper proof."

Juniper Aiming for Safer Smartphones, Mobile Users With Business Software.

"IBM has been testing Juniper’s mobile security products and is planning to expand mobile access to hundreds of thousands of its employees from the tens of thousands it supports today, Merrill said. Though the company’s focus has been primarily on PC-based security threats, mobile security is increasingly attracting attention, he said.

'It hasn’t become the next big threat, but when it does, we want to be ready,' Merrill said."

Juniper To Acquire SMobile Systems For $70 Million In Cash.

"Juniper Networks (JNPR) this afternoon said it has agreed to buy SMobile Systems, a Columbus, Ohio-based provider of smart phone and tablet security software for the enterprise, for about $70 million in cash."

SMobile Systems and Sybase iAnywhere Alliance for Mobile Enterprise Security.

"SMobile Systems today announced that it has partnered with Sybase iAnywhere, to deliver advanced mobile security solutions for Information Anywhere Suite's Afaria mobile device management and security platform. Together, Sybase iAnywhere and SMobile will work to secure a broad range of smartphones from the latest intrusions and threats, leveraging SMobile's antivirus, firewall and mobile spam protection."

SMobile providing security for British Telecom phones.

"Columbus-based SMobile was selected to provide antivirus, antispam, antispyware and firewall protection for British Telecommunication Plc's BT Total Broadband Anywhere service, specifically on the company's BT ToGo phones that rolled out within the past few weeks."

InnoPath partners with O3SIS to provide backup and restore.

"InnoPath Software... has entered into an OEM agreement with O3SIS of Cologne, Germany, to bring to market a complete Integrated Mobile Device Management (iMDM) based Backup & Restore solution."

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"Handsets from Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Motorola almost all ship with an OMA DS client for data synchronization, which is the basis for the O3sis product, so in their case we just have to activate and configure that client over the air... For Windows Mobile phones, which don’t, we’ll download a client to the handset...

The addition of backup and restore capabilities to its platform follows on the announcement last month of an agreement with mobile AV vendor SMobile to integrate its technology into the InnoPath platform. 'AV for mobiles is different from desktop stuff, because the latter can be a pull service, whereas in cellular you want to avoid unnecessary traffic, so you program it to be a push, only when there is a specific signature for a new threat,' said Ashkenazi.

He stressed, furthermore, that the deals are not exclusive. 'We’re a platform company, so we can integrate with other backup and restore or mobile AV products if a customer asks us to.'"

InnoPath partners with SMobile Systems to provide mobile device security.

"The collaboration integrates the SMobile firewall, anti-virus, and security policy enforcement capabilities into InnoPath’s Integrated Mobile Device Management (iMDM) architecture, and is driven by the need for wireless operators to better protect the increasing number of applications on today’s mobile phones and handheld devices."