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Smartphones and tablet PCs are an indispensable part of modern business and government. The progress of productivity and flexibility are facing new risks: The problem that employees access to sensitive data over smartphones and can change this, open up new avenues of attack necessarily for criminals and industrial spies. Smartphones are used simultaneously for both business and private purposes, such risk has increased again: If you installed a fancy new private app, this app has perhaps an unintentional and uncontrolled access to critical business information. Sirrix AG and Fraunhofer SIT has recognized this problem as one of the central challenges of IT security. Solutions are required, which are equally usable for end users and organizations, economically acceptable in a long term and at the same time the solutions have to be sufficiently secure. To develop such solutions and to offer them on market, is the common strategy of Sirrix and Fraunhofer SIT.

Both parties have signed a cooperation agreement for this purpose, in which is regulated the framework for joint research and development of secure mobile systems. The cooperation aims to develop innovative solutions for the safe use of smartphones, especially for professional use. "Fraunhofer SIT offers interesting ideas, valuable developments and excellent staff. “Therefore we are very happy that we won the Institute as a development and technology partner, "says CEO Ammar Alkassar. “This gives us the opportunity to offer our customers more innovative products faster in the field of mobile security." Fraunhofer SIT offers expertise in the smartphone and system security. The Sirrix also has extensive experience in management and secure configuration of mobile devices. "The partnership builds a bridge between research and development on the one side and the application in government agencies and businesses on the other side," says Prof. Michael Waidner. "With the help of Sirrix we can accelerate our development activities and expanding our services for companies and authorities."

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