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John Pescatore, a security analyst at Gartner, a market research company, said that forcing all users to synchronize their data to a single server over the air has another benefit over letting them use their office PC's for backing up data, it creates a log of all information moving to and from the devices. He commented that monitoring software can be set up to search through the data exchanges to make sure no confidential data passes to unauthorized devices. Mr. Pescatore expects this year to be a turning point for mobile security, in the same way that personal firewalls and antivirus software on PC's gained importance early in the decade because of viruses like I Love You and Melissa. John Pescatore, a security analyst at Gartner, said that forcing all users to synchronize their data to a single server over the air has another benefit over letting them use their office PCs for backing up data: it creates a log of all information moving to and from the devices. Mr. Pescatore expects this year to be a turning point for mobile security. By the end of the year, smartphones with so much storage and processing power will represent about half of all cellphones in the United States, compared with about 30 percent today, Mr. Pescatore said.