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World to make 1.37 billion smartphones in 2021 says IDC – about one for every six humans • The Register

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1.37 billion smartphones will ship in 2021, says analyst firm IDC, and 570 million of them will be 5G-ready.

The company’s latest Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker predicts growth of 7.4 per cent to reach that colossal number, but also notes “2021 shipments have managed to display minimal growth compared to 2019 (pre-pandemic) volumes”.

Shipments of Apple devices are predicted to jump 13.8 per cent, with Androids growing by 6.2 per cent. Premium phones continue to be in demand, with shipments of kit priced at $1000 or more growing 116 per cent year-over-year compared to Q2 in 2020.

“The world’s largest markets – China, the United States, and Western Europe – will still be down from 2019, but growing markets such as India, Japan, the Middle East, and Africa are fueling the recovery,” IDC writes.

Punters want 5G and are willing to pay for it.

“5G shipments continue to be a primary driver of 2021 growth as both vendors and channels focus on 5G devices that carry a significantly higher average selling price (ASP) than older 4G devices,” the firm states.

The ASP of a 5G smartphone will therefore reach $634 in 2021 – up just a tick from 2020’s $632. Even at that price, shipments of 5G phones will grow by 123.4 per cent to 570 million.

“China will continue to lead the market with 47.1 per cent of the 5G global market share, followed by the USA at 16 per cent, India at 6.1 per cent, and Japan at 4.1 per cent,” IDC suggests. “By the end of 2022, 5G units are expected to make up more than half of all smartphone shipments with a 54.1 per cent share.”

4G phones are headed for the bargain basement, with ASP expected to land at $206 – almost 30 per cent down from 2020’s $277.

Earth’s human population is on track to hit around 7.9 billion in 2021. This year’s smartphone harvest therefore means there’s a new handset for about…

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IronNet named a “Vendor Who Shaped the Year” for second time by IDC

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IDC released its Worldwide Cybersecurity AIRO and Tier 2 SOC Analytics Market Shares, 2020. The Seeds That Become Cloud-Native XDR, which highlights the growth of the $12.8B advanced cybersecurity market that include Network Intelligence and Threat Analytics, mobile device management and the emerging cloud-native extended detection and response (XDR) category. For the second time in less than twelve months, IronNet was highlighted as a Vendor Who Shaped the Year for our ability detect threats using AI-based behavioral analysis and our ability to generate attack intelligence through IronNet’s unique real-time Collective Defense capability. 

With cyber attacks like SUNBURST, Colonial Pipeline, and Kaseya making headlines, it is clear that network defenses continue to play an important role in any organization’s cybersecurity controls. The ability to identify suspicious activity using advanced and scalable behavioral analytics on network traffic, and the ability to automatically acquire contextual data and prioritize detected anomalies using industry leading response playbooks based on risk to the organization through the use of an Expert System, is critical for modernizing cyber defense against supply chain threats, ransomware attacks, and other high impact cyber attacks. 

Equally important is the ability to share attack intelligence in near real-time across a community of peers in a Collective Defense formation. The ability to share threat insights across a supply chain, business ecosystems, region, or nation against the numerous threat groups (e.g., such as Russian cyber attack groups) allows enterprises to scale cyber defenses to meet these targeted threats.

“The IronNet differentiator is its Collective Defense platform that consists of its IronDefense network detection and response and its unique IronDome threat sharing solution that facilitates a crowdsource-like environment, in which IronDefense threat detections from individual companies are shared anonymously and in real time among members of a secured Collective Defense community … IronNet addresses the scarcity of security professionals, closing the talent gap with AI-based behavioral analytics that…

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The Mobile Security Show: Securing Enterprise Use of Personal Devices

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Sophos Emerges as Top Mobile Security Leader in The IDC Marketscape

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Sophos is now leading in the IDC Marketscape, according to an assessment by World Mobile Threat Management Software Vendor. The firm assesses business strategies and product offerings of mobile threat management systems vendors.

As a leading entity, Sophos’ Intercept X for mobile can protect android, Chrome OS, and iOS devices from known and unknown threats. The solution platform is lent support by SophosLabs, which can analyze at least 400,000 daily risks and remain on top of all potential threats like Fleece ware, one of the new mobile device threats that Sophos discovered. This malware charges users more on essential services that they can get elsewhere at a lower cost or free.

The Sophos Intercept X features unified endpoint management, offering easy management of the platform’s cloud that also includes the platform’s complete next-generation cyber system services as well as cutting edge innovative R & D efforts.

Based on the reports, the platform’s UEM and MTM products are hardly used by MTM affiliated vendor but is quite common among vendors who took part in the study. As a result, Sophos has a strong standing in scenarios where an enterprise wants a point of contact for security systems and device management.

Dan Schiappa, the company’s chief product officer, stated that mobile devices make easy targets for several attacks. The risk is even higher not that people have shifted to working remotely where workers use both personal and company tools to access sensitive information.

He added that the company has continued to be relentless in securing users irrespective of the device they use and their location. He went on to say that they are continuously innovating so that they can always be ahead of potential threats.

Source: https://itbrief.co.nz/story/sophos-named-mobile-security-leader-in-idc-marketscape

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