Many eyebrows rose with surprise when the Executive Chairman of Google Eric Schmidt claimed that the Android Operating System is much safer than the Apple’s iOS. The statement was made in the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Florida. The jaws were dropped by the people who were listening to Eric. Adrian Ludwig, the Android Security Chief presented a last minute at the Virus Bulletin conference in Berlin in which he tried to explain that the Android OS is equipped with a multiple layer security measures that protects your phone from the attacks of malicious applications. He further added that more than 0.001 percent of the malicious can pass this multiple layer defense of the Android OS.
However, according to the reports if anti-virus firms such as Trend Micro revealed that the incidents of data leakage has passed the one million mark recently, and the majority of them relates to the Android devices. Anti malware and antivirus firms have a firm believe that the Google’s Operating System is targeted by crooks and the greater part of these attacks gets successful? The Android OS is said to have these security layers Google Play, unknown sources warning, install confirmation, Verify Apps consent, Verify Apps warning, Runtime analysis and the permissions-based sandbox that each app must operate within.
But, the problem with these security layers is that, the message Android security barriers show to the users are in the shape of such pop ups to which users do not pay much of an attention and clicks blindly. In order to keep your data protected that is saved in an Android device, you can use a data security application such as Folder Lock for Android. Some people blame the Android users more than the OS itself as the user is the one who has to make decisions, and without much of a concern he just taps the option ignoring the message written in it. So, not only the Android OS, but, also the users are responsible of poor security measures of the Android.
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