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There are two kinds of people in the world: Android people and iPhone people. Both are insistent that their device is truly superior one and neither is willing to let up. Everyone has that moment you\u2019re your hanging out with a group of people and you\u2019re looking around and you realize that you\u2019re the only droid in the room.<\/p>\n

It may not happen every day, but the conversation will inevitably turn and someone will say, \u201cI can\u2019t believe you\u2019re using an Android, iPhones are so much cooler,\u201d or vice versa. This petty, ongoing game among friends becomes more complicated when brought to the enterprise. It\u2019s no longer about what\u2019s cool or trendy or even what you like better; it\u2019s about security and which operating system is going to stand against malware.<\/p>\n

Historically, iOS has been the clear winner in enterprise mobility and currently dominates corporate mobile strategy because it\u2019s fundamentally more secure than Android. This is because Android took the open source route when it comes to development, meaning anyone can put any app they develop in the Android app stores no matter how riddled it is with malware. With iOS, each app has to be approved by Apple making it almost (but not completely) impossible to download a bad app.<\/p>\n

\u201ciOS and Android took two distinctly approaches to their application stores. While Android began by cultivating an open ecosystem that would largely be policed by the Android community, Apple\u2019s App Store was tightly controlled with an upfront review process and strict terms of service that made it difficult for malware developers to get their wares into the App Store.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the 2015 Mobile Threat Report by Pulse Secure<\/a>, there\u2019s much more to the story than open source vs closed. For one, malware developers target Android because it dominates a whopping 85 percent of the smartphone market. It may not seem that way because in the U.S., iPhones take more than half of the market, but in Asia, people almost exclusively carry Androids.<\/a><\/p>\n

It could be argued that malware developers target Android because it\u2019s more successful. They just don\u2019t want to go through all the trouble to infect iOS devices; it\u2019s just not worth the headache. By targeting Android, \u201cmalware developers are able to get their wares on the largest amount of devices by focusing on the platform that most consumers choose to carry.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust as historical data of the PC market illustrates that Microsoft Windows\u2019 dominance of the PC market led to the focus of malware developers, so too does Android\u2019s dominance in attracting the new battle front in data theft in an increasingly mobile-centric consumer market.\u201d<\/p>\n

Google is well aware of this and aren\u2019t letting malware developers get away. \u201cGoogle has gone to great lengths by acquiring several different technologies and building a background process for applications. As it currently stands, the Google Play Store is almost entirely free of malicious applications.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Forbes, only 0.1 percent of apps on the Play Store carry malicious code. The majority of malware being developed and distributed is being shopped through unregulated third party app stores in the Middle East and Asia.\u00a0 Just by making the choice to shop for apps in the official Google Play Store instead of a third party store almost guarantees that you won\u2019t accidentally download malware from an Android app.<\/p>\n

This is good news for the enterprise because it makes the inevitable BYOD transition much less daunting. At least some of your employees will be using Androids and as long as you have a solid EMM solution and educate your employees on malware, there is no reason why their Android devices will be security risks. At this point, security is no longer a deciding factor between Android and iPhone; it\u2019s really what the user prefers to use. You can kick your feet up and let them fight over which device they think is \u201ccooler\u201d with confidence because it won\u2019t really matter to you; they\u2019re both secure.<\/p>\n

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