Since smart phones have become part of our lives, there are many benefits that they have brought us along the way, but their use can also create consequences for us, especially at the security level.
For this reason, more and more official premises and work centers have updated their security policies, incorporating the prohibition of using smart mobile devices within them to avoid situations of confidential data leaks.
This leads to situations in which there are members who work in the same who are unable to access a series of resources from mobile phones that could help them increase their productivity within the work period.
SafeCase, taking mobile security to an unknown level
Faced with this scenario, and where Faraday cage solutions are not effective solutions either, now comes SafeCase, the new product from Privoro in association with Samsung, which acts as an additional layer of high security in Samsung mobile devices, initially starting with the Samsung Galaxy S22 family of phones.
Samsung says that:
Privoro’s SafeCase uses hardware-to-hardware integration with Galaxy’s unique Hardware Device Manager (HDM) to control the phone’s hardware peripherals, starting with the cellular radio and later extending to other radios (NFC, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi). Fi) as well as sensors).
The idea is to make it possible at all times to have control of each of the hardware elements of the mobile phones to avoid possible situations of vulnerability and monitoring, mitigating possible negative effects of the use of mobile phones in sensitive environments, even if the operating system would become compromised.
Samsung explains that:
The integration uses two different hardware systems isolated from each other, eliminating any single point of failure. This provides the certainty that the sensor and radio hardware can be safely disabled, even if the device’s operating system has been compromised.
With SafeCase, users will be protected from both local attacks, including mobile tracking solutions that monitor their calls, messages, and location data, as well as remote attack situations, including attacks where attackers impersonate cell towers. to intercept communications.
And it is that:
Because the action takes place at a hardware level below the operating system, malicious applications do not obtain information about when the user of the device is attempting to “shut down.”
It also prevents audio and video captures
Privoro’s new SafeCase cases also offer audio masking and camera shutter blocking to prevent audio and video capture of people and the facilities they are in, thus preventing them from being tracked, traced and violated privacy.
Samsung says that SafeCase cases have come to be used by a large security agency, noting the effectiveness of them.
At this point, more than one will be able to remember those cases where, if they had existed previously, there would have been no cases of data leaks, both at the level of politicians and big businessmen.
For people who are potential targets of attacks and more
In this regard, note that it is a device designed for individual use by journalists, activists, large investors, and other people who may be susceptible to online attacks, as well as work environments and institutions that work with sensitive and private data, allowing their members to use mobile phones to access resources that allow them to improve productivity in a more secure way.
More information: Samsung
Image credit: Privoro
