Security startup Lookout has launched a smartphone security suite in free beta, which is currently available for Windows Mobile, Android, iPhone and BlackBerry.

"Lookout is currently beta-testing its first product, a consumer offering that uses both blacklisting and whitelisting approaches for malware protection and protection from malicious applications, firewall and IDS, data backup, and recovery and phone management, as well as a way for mobile users to locate and protect smartphones gone missing," writes DarkReading's Kelly Jackson Higgins.

"The company plans a full rollout in early 2010 for all platforms, followed by an enterprise version of the software in late 2010 or early 2011," Higgins writes.

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