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Qualcomm's Snapdragon Smart Protect to Beef Up Mobile Security

Qualcomm's Snapdragon Smart Protect to Beef Up Mobile Security Image Credit: Qualcomm

The upcoming Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor will be the first platform to offer a new mobile security technology, Snapdragon Smart Protect to improve security and privacy on high-end Android-based smartphones. The new technology which is a feature within the Qualcomm Haven security suite is designed to provide real-time, on-device machine learning to support accurate and effective detection of zero-day malware threats for improved personal privacy and device security. 

The security technology is built to complement existing signature-based anti-malware solutions by analysing and identifying new threats prior to new signature updates. OEMs and mobile anti-malware application providers can also use Snapdragon Smart Protect API’s to perform valuable causal analysis, offering users and the mobile industry real-time information of identified threats. 

According to Qualcomm, the Snapdragon Smart Protect is also the first application to utilize Qualcomm® Zeroth technology, augmenting conventional anti-malware solutions by supporting on device real-time malware detection, classification and cause analysis using an advanced cognitive computing behavioural engine.

Asaf Ashkenazi, director, product management, Qualcomm Technologies
With consumers storing more personal information on their devices, data leakage incidents and malware are on the rise....Snapdragon Smart Protect supports deep on-device monitoring for nearly instantaneous notifications of detected privacy violations and malicious activity while also providing great system performance and battery life.

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