Samsung treats users’ data as state secrets with chip-level security

The cases of Nation-state bad actors entering the devices of high-profile users through government spyware such as NSO Group’s Pegasus and Android-based ‘Hermit’ are too high at the present time.

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Samsung understands that anyone’s personal data should be a secret therefore, it is treating its users’ smartphone data as state secrets to provide chip-level security in order to protect their personal and other sensitive information, according to Samsung’s global executive.

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Smartphones stores some valuable information such as our personal IDs, financial information, location as well as health information, professional and private chats, app usage, and more. That’s why it’s never been more important to keep the customers and their data safe.

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Dr. Shin, the Vice President and head of Samsung’s security department says the company is rising hardware-backed security to safeguard the entire device. These include the chipset as well as OS and applications.

For a better secure app experience, Samsung has developed ‘TEEGRIS’. It is an operating system for security that enables partners to leverage hardware cryptography, encryption, and access restrictions.

Samsung also performs integrity checks on important security components and services in order to prevent unauthorized software from loading into the device. The executive says –

“Our real-time Kernel Protection and DEFEX technologies, which we have patented, are among the only ones that intercept any important operations that might compromise the device while it is switched on.”

Dr. Shin further states that making sure that consumers’ data is never misused is the only way to fully secure their privacy. The company thus makes every effort to protect us and our information, the four years of Android OS upgrades alongside five years of security patches is one of those examples.