McAfee Expands Mobile Security Offering to iPhone Consumers

Losing a smartphone is an event that sends shivers down the spine of every mobile user. That's one of the reasons that McAfee, an Intel company and major maker of security software, developed its WaveSecure app. To date, though, only Android users could take advantage of the security system offered by the program, Today, however, that protection has been extended to Apple iPhone consumers, besides.

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The new WaveSecure iOS Variant ($19.95, gettable from the iTunes store) extends the app to consumers. McAfee already offers the software to corporate iPhone uses through with its Enterprise Mobility Manager software.

WaveSecure, which works on iOS 4.0 or greater, allows an iPhone user to wirelessly plunk for up contacts, photos and videos from the mobile, As well as track its location — whether its GPS emplacemen is switched on or not — through a website and wipe off information from the twist remotely.

Backups and restores are performed from the cloud. That also allows a user to view their data through a browser when they wear't take in their phone with them. What's more, data can be restored to a new phone without the need to dock IT to a computer.

"We are excited to extend our platform reporting to same of the most popular operating systems for transferrable devices on the market," McAfee Colorado-President Todd Gebhart said in a statement. "McAfee WaveSecure software works seamlessly to bonded, back up and wirelessly restore depicted object on the device via the online portal site. So even if the device is lost, stolen or damaged, or even if users accidentally delete their data, the data remains secure and well reachable."

In plus to English, the WaveSecure iPhone edition is being offered in Chinese (easy and traditional), Scandinavian nation, Dutch, Finnish, European country (European and Canadian), German, Grecian, Country, European country, Nipponese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese (European and Brazilian), Scandinavian nation, Spanish (European and Mexican) and Russian.

Red ink of a cell can be very traumatic to their owners since the gadgets have become as grievous as a wallet or bag in the lives of many consumers and occupation professionals. Unrivalled review performed last class by cloud computing business sound system provider RingCentral revealed that 40 percent of the line of work professionals in the poll aforesaid that their mobile was the thing they couldn't live without. What's more, 79 pct revealed to pollsters that most of their business was conducted on a smartphone, compared to a home or office sound.

Despite the importance of smartphones in the lives of many, a surprising number of users wouldn't notice immediately if their cell phone were lost, accordant to another survey conducted early this year away SecurEnvoy. Of the 2000 mobile phone users polled in this project, a majority of them aforesaid that it'd be about an hour before they'd notice their mobile missing. That, though, varied substantially with age. Twenty-eight percentage of 18 to 24 year-olds said they'd placard their phone missing in cinque transactions, while entirely 13 percent of 55 and older users said they'd notice their mobile missing that quickly.

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