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cdmagurus.com
05-01-2017, 02:04 PM
The U.S. National Security Agency is now suggesting government departments and businesses buy smartphones secured using virtualization, a technology it currently requires only on tablets and laptops
The change comes about with the arrival of the first virtualization-based smartphone security system on the U.S. Commercial Solutions for Classified list.
CSFC is a program developed by the NSA to help U.S. government agencies and the businesses that serve them to quickly build layered secure systems from approved components.
An-HTC A9 smartphone security-hardened by Cog Systems (http://www.cio.com/article/3174695/security/cog-systems-offers-more-secure-version-of-htc-a9-smartphone.html)-using its D4 virtualization platform is now on that list, alongside devices without virtualization from Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, and BlackBerry.
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