With Smart Protect Android smartphones will be more secure – Computerworld

Installed on the smartphone software Snapdragon Smart Protect monitors its activity and upon the appearance of any unusual events inform the user presumption that it may be a hacker attack. You can ad hoc cite two events that tool Snapdragon Smart Protect can be seen as an attempt to break into the smartphone: when the application tries for example. Take a picture when the display is off, or when the application tries to send a text message with no apparent activity holder your smartphone.

The first processor that will support the Snapdragon Smart Protect technology, will be the Snapdragon 820. The company predicts that smartphones equipped with the processor will go into the hands of users in the first half of 2016 years. With time Snapdragon Smart Protect should appear in cheaper smartphones with lower shelves.

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The technology will support only smartphones running operating system Android and introduced to the Snapdragon 820 processor functionality that support this technology, called the Zeroth. Qualcomm describes it as her first option known as “cognitive computing”, which can be described as cognitive processing.

Qualcomm provides, however, that processors supporting technology Snapdragon Smart Protect Smart consume slightly more power than the standard processors Snapdragon. The difference is so slight that it is difficult to measure.

Snapdragon Smart Protect also uses a platform developed by ARM TrustZone, through which the processor can handle applications that are not controlled by the operating system. This is possible thanks to the existence within the processor a separate hardware layer, which effectively protects the computing system from hackers.

However, the mere fact that the Snapdragon processor 820 supports multiple Smart Protect does not mean that the smartphone will be automatically protected from the actions of hackers . Qualcomm will provide manufacturers of smartphones appropriate API, but they themselves will have to develop and introduce produced by each other device suitable user interface that will support this functionality.

Qualcomm has already established cooperation with companies offering tools that protect computing systems from attacks (such as AVG, Avast or Lookout), providing them with solutions that will make the Smart Protect technology products.

 

 
 

 
 
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