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 Protect your contacts
By Theo Boshoff
Kaspersky Labs has unveiled a new version of its mobile protection solution, incorporating a nifty feature that will enable users to protect their mobile phone contacts and keep communications secret.
Version 9 of Kaspersky Mobile Security was unveiled today at the ITWeb Security Summit held at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg and, according to the company, promises to protect smartphone users against a variety of digital threats.
Apart from upgrades to the usual anti-virus, anti-theft and encryption functions of the solution, it now also includes a brand-new Privacy Protection feature, which Vasily Dyagilev, head of regional retail sales at Kaspersky Lab, says allows users to hide information about any contacts they want to keep confidential from others handling the phone.
He explains that this feature allows a user to create a list of contacts a user wants to keep confidential, marking them as ‘private’. This function can then conceal all contact information, as well as call logs, SMSes, IM conversations, made and received calls between the user and the ‘private’ contact.
This feature is also flexible and customisable by the user, who can choose to only partially hide certain information of a contact, allowing the number, for instance, to be displayed in the contact list, but hiding all communication with that contact.
“Hidden contacts can easily be made visible again by entering a password,” Dyagilev notes.
This added functionality, says Dyagilev, is great for business people who need to keep certain communication confidential and away from competitors’ prying eyes, but he also hints to a more personal application for consumers wanting to keep some secrecy in their communications with others.
The solution supports smartphones running Symbian 9.1, 9.2, 9.4 as well as those running on the Windows Mobile 5.0, 6.0-6.5 platform and will retail for about R4 000.
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