Enhanced mobile security using SIM encryption

Mobile security is a main topic of concern for the enterprise. Corporate data stored in employees device post a potential security risk of getting lost, stolen or get accessed by unauthorized personal. There are many solutions in the market that addresses this issue. Most of these solutions revolve around applying stronger password, others make use of the encryption of either full or partial hard drive. Data encryption for mobile devices is a known art. However, the existing mobile data encryption solutions share the same methodology with slight implementation variation. The common techniques used to secure mobile data and or mobile code is wither on the application layer using software encryption or on the hardware layer. Our proposed solution introduces a new approach for securing data in mobile devices with encryption technique that is integrated with the mobile SIM card and robust enough to accommodate the common use case of mobile upgrade and yet keep corporate data encrypted.