Apple's iPhone and Microsoft CE-based devices are upping the ante for security software in embedded systems, according to experts presenting at the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA) Wireless conference next month (April 1-3, 2008, Las Vegas, Nev.) Embedded security software has become essential to these open-system-based mobile devices, as they grapple with traditional security in addition to new concerns, such as providing a safe execution environment for third-party applications. Once handled by in-house programmers, mobile-device makers are now turning to security software companies to provide these multi-level safety nets for personal data, digital rights management and authentication tasks.
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