From InfoWorld: IBM is entering the tablet market -- sort of. The company plans to sell a modified Samsung Android tablet this summer with extra security capabilities, aimed at government users.
The SecuTablet was developed by IBM and Secusmart, which BlackBerry acquired last year, for a German government department. It is a 16GB, LTE-equipped Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5 bundled with some software from IBM and Secusmart's special MicroSD card, which uses cryptographic chips to protect data in motion and at rest.
Samsung's Knox secure boot technology ensures that the OS on the tablet has not been tampered with, while IBM's contribution to the security chain is to "wrap" certain apps in an additional layer of code that intercepts and encrypts key data flows using the Secusmart hardware.
Secusmart managing director Hans-Christoph Quelle hopes that before year-end the German federal IT security agency, BSI, will grant the Knox-Secusmart combination a security rating corresponding to NATO Restricted.
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