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Many companies in South Africa are starting to roll out mobile devices to boost the productivity of their mobile workers. However the lure of empowering employees and making them more efficient (for example BlackBerry smartphone users save an average of 60 minutes a day, according to Ipsos Reid) should be balanced with the need to secure the information that can be accessed on them.

Chief Information Officers (CIOs) must pay close attention to the new security risks that mobile devices such as smartphones are prone to, and ensure that they have the right measures in place to protect the enterprise.

One threat that is growing in significance as more users count on smartphones for business applications is mobile malware. Just like PC viruses, malicious code has the potential to run undetected on a smartphone and wreak havoc within a corporate network.

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