Linked by David Adams on Fri 12th Sep 2008 16:39 UTC, submitted by Dannys
The opening up of the mobile industry is great news for application developers but not so good for IT security professionals, according to experts. For example, Symbian, the single most widely used mobile software platform, has already wrestled with the dangers of openness to third-party developers, said Khoi Nguyen, group product manager in mobile security at Symantec. Symbian 7 and 8 were fairly open and allowed almost any application to be installed and run. This led to a few hundred viruses being introduced within a couple of years, so Symbian 9 was locked down significantly, he said.
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For example, Symbian, the single most widely used mobile software platform, has already wrestled with the dangers of openness to third-party developers, said Khoi Nguyen, group product manager in mobile security at Symantec.
For Example, Microsoft Windows From over the years has been closed sourced, Ergo the reason for Mr Khoi Mguyen's employment at said Company.
While Another Example is OpenBSD. It is VERY Open Sourced OS and is more than robust enough to be used as an Enterprise Grade Firewall.