"Forecasts indicate there will be 24.1 billion active IoT devices by 2030 1 so we see great potential for our core digital security solutions as people's lives become increasingly connected," said Nick Viney, Senior Vice President, Avast Partner. "This agreement gives Avast's Partner team the opportunity to focus on building out our priority cybersecurity and privacy offerings and to expand into new vertical markets as well as the telecommunications space by partnering with Smith Micro to deliver our products and services to their customers as well as ours."