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Kaspersky says Google should take lessons from Microsoft over Android security
RUSSIAN INSECURITY OUTFIT Kaspersky Lab's CTO believes that Google should take a few lessons from its competitor Microsoft when it comes to security.
Google's Android market growth and open nature means that cyber criminals will inevitably see the system as an increasingly good target to make money. But Nikolay Grevennikov, speaking at London's Infosec conference, said that Google is quite insular about security. He said that the Internet search giant will need to change to cope with growing malicious threats, which Microsoft has done in the last few years by working with partners such as Adobe and various security vendors.
He said, "Google has the experience of dealing with big systems and has done a good job. But currently it doesn't have any real security partners which can help it to increase protection. I don't think that's the right approach. I think it would be better if it partnered with someone and really established good security expertise."
"Google has experts in search and cloud, but not in security. It doesn't understand many things in security because it doesn't have the past experience to make the right decisions. It can hire some people, but it's not a replacement for real process in a lab."
Grevennikov said that in 2007 Microsoft attempted to do security by itself, spending lots of money hiring experts from the security industry, establishing its own security unit and publishing its own anti-virus software. The problem was that for many, Microsoft has a poor reputation for software security, whether fairly or not.
He said, "Microsoft was forced to provide its product for free and a lot of experts left. I know because we hired some of them. Nobody feels any fear over Microsoft. The same with Google. It can try to do [security] by itself, but I don't think it will be successful."
In the future, Grevennikov said it is inevitable that Android will have to be regularly patched for security vulnerabilities if its market share grows the way people expect. The complexity of Android software is a benefit because there is so much you can do with it, but is also a weakness.
"For mobile phones I think security updates will put up on-the-fly rather than following some Microsoft style patch schedule," he said. "If you don't patch your systems, you shouldn't be using the Internet." µ
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Kaspersky already have solutions fro Android (and RIM/Linux and many other platforms)Just have a look at the supported platforms here: http://www.kaspersky.co.uk/total_space_security
Kaspersky is in mobile security business for almost a decade along with F-Secure.
Android security basically doesn't exist. They simply ignored the fail safe J2ME and Symbian security models invented because of real bad ass threats. They try to create an anti apple image by saying "install everything" with zero security and quality control.
Anyway, not fan of any smartphone so really don't waste your keystrokes. Blame the messenger as usual, when a nimda scale attack occurs and takes down all 3G/4G because of load, you already found who to blame: av companies!
If Android finally conquests the whole smartphone market, Kaspersky will only have work for Windows desktops. Thus, I can't understand Kaspersky words. Oh, wait!. Yes, I now understand... they need Android as broken as Windows desktops to ensure their future!
Fortunately for all of us, Android is as much secure as it could be. We don't need your help, dear Kaspersky!
Ok, it makes sense to not reinvent the wheel but creating a partnership with Adobe to improve security is similar to getting swimming lessons from a drowning man.
I understood as a threat by the kaspersky.
The antivirus software houses are seeing the potential of Android and Windows decline. Perhaps a future with people using tabblets, not PCs
And the message for google is: Either you partner with us, or we fill your Android with virus.
but it never came.
In Soviet Russia, Microsoft tells Google how to do security.
Microsoft has never been good at security. Don't they still sign people in as Administrator in the main account?
This article just seems sooooo ridiculous, and not because of the author.