Kaspersky goes mobile

AT THE LONDON INFOSEC SHOW, giant Russian anti-virus company Kaspersky unveiled its new AV software for corporate mobiles phones – protecting all that valuable valuable data that you're bound to lose anyway in the back of a taxi at 3 in the morning.

The mouthful that is the Mobile Security Enterprise Edition protects the likes of Windows Mobile and Symbian phones from spam and malware and builds an SMS firewall. It’s a mystery why the likes of BlackBerry are missing from the suite, when they would be the perfect candidate and market for these types of business security modules.    

Also thrown in for good measure is a bolt-in for those drunken exploits in the back of a taxi, when you do lose your mobile phone.  An IT department can remotely access a handset with Kaspersky’s anti-theft module and block the phone from being used, or even wipe all contents  with a simple text message. 

Bundled into the mobile phone's protection suite is also a feature for SIM monitoring, where details of the SIM card being pulled from the handset are reported – where the same actions for having a handset lost can be performed too.

No longer is there a need to worry, panic or chase after a cab when you’ve just realised your phone is inside it as it pulls away – just call a blurry-eyed guy in IT at 3am, then have him virtually chase after that phone for you.     

It also emerges that Kaspersky CEO and co-founder Eugene, er, Kaspersky has won the State Prize of the Russian Federation for Science and Technology. The award will be presented in the Kremlin on 12 June, 2009 by President Dmitry Medvedev.  µ