How secure is an iPad?

You may think me mad for travelling all the way to Slovakia to listen to a vendor preach about smartphone security, a topic that’s attracted plenty of scorn over recent years. I’ll admit that I’ve expressed highly sceptical opinions regarding the motives of those security vendors that have released antivirus products for mobile phones while the real-world threat was less than credible. Many of those press releases, blog entries and keynote speeches from security researchers would appear to be little more than carefully constructed exercises in FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt), designed to drive up sales of software that protects your mobile from, well, nothing at all really. But that was then and this is now, and everything has changed.