SoftBank partners with Zimperium to offer mobile security solutions in Japan

SoftBank has agreed to roll out San Francisco startup Zimperium's artificial intelligence (AI) security solution for mobile devices in Japan, starting November 15. The companies said the number of unknown malware and cyber attack methods targeting personal data has increased along with internet usage on mobile devices, which reached a tipping point in October when it exceeded desktop computers. SoftBank said it will continue to work with Zimperium -- which is backed by Warburg Pincus, Samsung, Telstra, and Sierra Ventures -- to offer mobile security to enterprise customers in the future. At the ARM TechCon in October, SoftBank's CEO Masayoshi Son spoke of the importance of security as internet-connected devices grow exponentially. He believes that 1 trillion devices will be connected to the internet within 20 years and data will grow more than 2,400 times, from 1 extabyte to 2.3 zetabytes by 2035, with IoT eventually leading to The Singularity when machine intelligence exceeds the collective intelligence of humans.