Kaspersky Lab and Leopard Labs have partnered to provide a handset-based offering, combining mobile anti-virus with mobile Internet filtering, SMS and MMS control, as well as mobile e-mail anti-spam. The companies claim it is the first such solution.
According to the firms, the solution has particular relevance to issues of cyber-bullying and parental control, and extends an enterprise's internal content access policies to employees' mobile devices.
The solutions are easy to deploy and manage and can be adapted in line with regulatory and social change. Mobile carriers will benefit from greater customer satisfaction and users will have confidence to subscribe to data services, safe in the knowledge that they have choice and flexibility in what content they can access, says Kaspersky Labs.
Kaspersky Anti-Virus Mobile was integrated by Leopard Labs to provide protection for smartphones and handhelds running under the Symbian and Windows Mobile platforms.
Kaspersky says the solution meets the highest standards for malware detection and uses fewer system resources compared to other solutions available on the market.
"We are pleased to partner with Leopard Labs to provide industry-leading protection from illegal charges and other newly-emerging mobile threats, as well as to extend the availability of Kaspersky Lab technologies to the Australian market," says Vitaly Bezrodnykh, business development director at Kaspersky.
"Leopard Labs is the world's first Internet filtering and security system that is integrated into a mobile phone and Kaspersky Lab is the first to develop removal tools for viruses that spread via mobile devices," he adds.
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