Businesses Prefer the Safety of iOS over the Openness of Android
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According to a recent report from the Good Technology Device Activations, the number of Android tablet activations is significantly lower than the number of iPad activations within enterprise.
For enterprise, the iPad accounted for 96 percent of all tablet activations in the third quarter of 2011, as opposed to all tablets running Android, which only accounted for four percent for the same quarter.
IT Pro did their own analysis of the report, focusing on what the enterprise market can do to ensure it is comparing the safety of Android versus iOS.
When it comes to trustworthy ecosystems, the iPad wins. IT Pro says, “iOS wins out for having a secure iOS wins out for having a secure application sandbox which, unlike Android, prevents apps from being able to intercept SMS messages or replace the platform default browser, for example, and thus reduces the attack surface of installed applications sandbox which, unlike Android, prevents apps from being able to intercept SMS messages or replace the platform default browser, for example, and thus reduces the attack surface of installed applications.”
IT Pro also recommends that iPad users stay away from apps that allow Android operating system to be run on the Apple tablet. These types of programs allow malicious content to sneak past Apple’s security and invade the iPad without you knowing it.
Android is less secure because it is such a successful operating system. The open-platform nature allows it to be used on virtually any device, causing it to have “too much inconsistency in the data protection mix.”
Full disk encryption, although not a default feature on iOS, is a mode that can be switched on for the iPad using mobile device management software. Because Android exists on many different devices, the updates are an unknown. “you are leaving OS updates to the mercy of the hardware manufacturer or network provider, the end result of which is a real mishmash of Android OS versions out there,” says IT Pro.
Basically, the iPad wins for the enterprise market when it comes to the security of information. Why should security only be relegated to enterprise? Everyone would feel better knowing that their information is kept private, secure and free from malicious viruses and the iPad wins in that category.
