Fixmo blocks corporate apps on compromised mobile devices
Fixmo, a company that started out developing tools for the U.S. National Security Agency, is offering a new product that will automatically shut down corporate applications on compromised iOS and Android devices.
Fixmo MRM, which stands for mobile risk management, integrates two products. One is Fixmo Sentinel, which has its roots in the NSA technology and regularly scans a phone to ensure that it is adhering to policies set by the organization. Consisting of both back-end and on-device software, it alerts an administrator to any unauthorized changes to the phones.
The second component to Fixmo MRM is Fixmo SafeZone, which has been available for a few months as a "tech preview." SafeZone is a secure container that runs on iOS and Android devices. All data in the SafeZone is encrypted and users can't copy data from inside the zone to outside. Fixmo has built apps, including email, calendar, contacts, a browser and an Office doc reader, that run inside the SafeZone. It also offers tools that software makers can use to enable their products to run inside the secure container.
