Silicon Valley Bing Mobile internet Security market wins the favor of the venture

When downloading applications, how to prevent the smartphone terminal from being infected by malware, resulting in system crashes or battery consumption? If the cell phone is stolen or accidentally left behind, how can you find it quickly and easily?　　How do I safely back up the most important data on a smartphone and recover lost data?　　With the explosive growth of the global smartphone market, some Silicon Valley innovation companies have quietly Bing in the mobile security market and have begun to win the favor of venture capital. Recently, Lookout, based in San Francisco, announced that it had received 11 million dollars from Accel. This is its B-round investment, and the agencies involved in the round include Khosla Ventures and trilogy partnership.　　Toseph Ansanelli, the former chief executive of Symantec, a well-known anti-virus software manufacturer, also joined the entrepreneurial team as chairman of the company in the new round of investments. "In today's mobile apps, consumers use mobile phones to download apps, read emails, and use mobile internet banking to do more than phone calls," he said. For mobile hackers, mobile phone's ability to pay is equivalent to providing the opportunity and incentive to commit a crime. Users are increasingly looking to secure data on their smartphones as well as applications.　　"June 20, Lookout founder and chief technology officer Kevin Mahaffey said in an interview with reporters.　　In other words, catches, the desktop internet age of Microsoft operating system Windows repeatedly hacked the situation may soon be in the mobile Internet arena. According to Kevin, Lookout was founded in 2007, when Kevin Mahaffey, John Hering and James Burgess, a mobile security researcher who met at the University of Southern California, decided to set up a company. Research into early mobile security has led them to the common conclusion that security threats to mobile users are growing rapidly, and that new mobile security solutions will soon be needed in this new market. An important background here is that in 2005, at the Oscars in Hollywood, celebrity mobile phone private data theft occurred.　　It also makes the public aware that private data on mobile phones is very vulnerable to leaks. By offering users a free version, Lookout currently supports mobile platforms such as Android, BlackBerry, Microsoft Window Mobile, and supports more than 400 mobile networks in 170 countries. "China also has our active users, and we are constantly seeking and expanding new markets."　　"Kevin said.　　According to the reporter understands, in protects the user handset and the information aspect, lookout mainly provides three functions: stops the virus, the malware, the spyware, the scanning application installs, the regular scanning and so on, automatically regularly backs up the user important data on the lookout platform. In addition, if a user's phone is stolen or accidentally lost, lookout can be achieved through any browser to find the mobile phone in Google Map location, activate the bell, the remote elimination of the user's mobile phone all the personal information. "In this time period, our customers are mainly individual consumers, not directly targeting large enterprises, but the Fortune 500 has more than 50% of the enterprises are our users." According to Kevin, Lookout plans to launch a paid version later this year.