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Symbian OS Platform Security

Software Development Using the Symbian OS Security Architecture

This book provides a detailed insight into the security architecture that was introduced with Symbian OS v9. The book will be vital to application developers, phone manufacturers and security specialists.

A key consideration for developers wishing to profit by designing applications for the latest versions of Symbian OS is the enhanced security architecture that will ensure that Symbian OS-based phones are secure and robust. Developers need to be aware of how this security architecture works and how to utilise it: the enhanced platform security architecture will influence the decisions made by every developer that uses Symbian OS, either for phone creation or for application creation. Symbian OS Platform Security is a guide to using this security architecture.

The approach of the book will be to explain the philosophy of platform security as well as the implementation. This approach, mixing concepts and narrative with code segments and examples will:

• explain the context and need for platform security on mobile devices and the concepts that underlie the architecture, such as the core principles of ‘trust', ‘capability' and ‘data caging'
• explain how to develop on a secure platform: the development environment and how to write secure applications, servers and plug-ins; and how to share data safely between devices
• explain the concepts of application certification and signing, the industry ‘gatekeepers' of platform security.