An Overview of Threats and Security Software Solutions for Smartphones

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An overview of threats and security software solutions for smartphones. Zuerst erschienen in:

Software solutions for high-security voice and data communication for smartphones

“…Usual in trade smartphones in combination with standard data protection features, e.g. solutions for mobile device management, mobile data protection, mobile identity and access management, mobile network protection or mobile threat management [10], are not sufficient. Usually specialised solutions are necessary, to guarantee the high needs for protection of voice and data communication.…”

“…The two market leaders in Germany are SiMKo3 and SecuSUITE for BlackBerry 10. Even though there is a significant number of publications describing specific security issues for smartphones and detailed high-security functions [2,6,7,8,9,10], but an overall picture and a comparison of high-security voice and data communication software is still missing. Moreover, there is no established paper about such a comparison available nor criteria were defined for this problem in the past.…”