For most of our clients, the phone is the estate.
Ask where a public figure\'s private life is stored and the honest answer is a handset. Not the laptop, which is used for contracts and taxes, and not the desktop, which is used by somebody else entirely. The phone carries the group chats, the unreleased material, the location history, the two factor codes that protect everything else, and photographs nobody intended to be a filing system.
It is also the device that behaves least like an office asset. It joins the hotel network, the venue network and the aircraft network in a single day. It is handed to somebody to take a photograph. It receives messages from numbers that are not in it, carrying links, and the person reading them is tired.
Judgement made on the handset itself.
Phone Protection runs a detection engine on the device. The engine is Zimperium, a house that has done mobile threat defence and nothing beside it for years, which is the qualification that matters when the handset is the estate. Behavioural models sit locally and judge what is happening in the moment, and that has two consequences worth understanding.
The first is that protection does not lapse when connectivity does. An aircraft, a basement, a foreign network with no data plan: the models are still running. The second is about privacy, and it is the reason we chose this design for this clientele. Analysis happens where the content already is. The engine does not need to ship your messages, photographs or browsing to a cloud service in order to have an opinion about them.
Four categories, all of them ordinary.
- Applications that misbehave. Anything installed from an official store or sideloaded is assessed on what it actually does: the permissions it takes, where it sends data, whether it is a repackaged copy of something legitimate. Zero day mobile malware is caught on behaviour rather than on a signature that does not exist yet.
- Phishing, in every channel it arrives through. Not only mail. Links reach a phone by text, by chat application, by QR code on a table, and by a shortened address in somebody\'s profile.
- Hostile networks. Rogue wireless access points, machine in the middle interception, and tampering with encrypted sessions. This is the practical risk of conferences, venues, hotels and airports, which is to say the practical risk of the working year.
- A device that is no longer itself. Jailbreaking and rooting strip out the separation the platform relies on. Sometimes the owner did it. Sometimes it is the first evidence that somebody with ten minutes of physical access did it.
The alert goes where you told us to send it.
A detection on a handset is not automatically an emergency and we do not treat it as theatre. Our desk sees it, judges it, and follows the contact instruction on your account. Some households want the principal told directly. Most want the chief of staff or the manager told, with the principal informed only if it turns out to matter.
Set it once at onboarding. Change it whenever the arrangement around you changes, which in our experience is more often than anybody plans for.
| Built on | Zimperium mobile threat defence, resident on the handset |
|---|---|
| Platforms | iOS and Android phones and tablets |
| Detection | Behavioural models running on the device, continuously |
| Connectivity | No dependence on a cloud service being reachable to remain protected |
| Applications | Assessment of store and sideloaded applications by behaviour and permission |
| Phishing | Link inspection across mail, messaging and browsing on the handset |
| Network | Rogue access point, interception and session tampering detection |
| Integrity | Jailbreak, root and device tampering detection |
| Alerting | To the contact you nominate, in the manner you set at onboarding |
| Billed | Monthly, for each handset or tablet |
Where this line stops
This is protection, not management. Enrolling a handset so that policy can be pushed to it, or so it can be wiped when it goes missing, is Device Care in Apple and devices. Households usually want both on the principal\'s handset and protection alone on everybody else\'s.
It does not read or filter the contents of your messages for our benefit, and it cannot help with an account that has already been taken over elsewhere. If that has happened, write to us and say only that much.