Trustonic Secure Platform For Chinese Smartphone Manufacturer OPPO

Device and application security specialist Trustonic has announced that its technology is now being integrated by the world’s fourth largest smartphone manufacturer, OPPO.

Headquartered in China OPPO will use the Trustonic Secure Platform (TSP) to enhance the security and privacy of its devices, unlock security enhanced experiences on services such as Alipay and WeChat Pay, and support Google’s increasingly demanding mandate for hardware security in devices to underpin Android versions M and above.

According to Trustonic, TSP now secures nine of the top ten Android device makers smartphones and tablets. Already embedded in more than 1.5 billion devices, TSP, which includes the Trustonic Trusted Execution Environment (TEE), offers hardware protection in the form of a secure operating system which is completely isolated from the device operating system. This is claimed to make it, and trusted applications residing in it, highly protected from software threats resident on the device and enables advanced device security, such as biometric authentication and secure PIN entry. A hardware-based Root of Trust is also embedded into the devices and ensures that a trusted identity is preserved within the device, preventing fraudulent use or cloning.

As highlighted by the IDC QuarterlyMobile Phone Tracker: “OPPO’s midrange, camera-focused R9s was a crucial model in China that helped it to see strong shipments in the market. OPPO's growth has in fact been stronger outside of China with nearly a quarter of shipments from international markets. In the rest of Asia and to a smaller degree in the Middle East and Africa regions, its strong retail presence has helped it to grow further in its business.”

“OPPO is focused on delivering the best user experience possible and has spent the last decade making mobile technology breakthroughs – particularly in the field of photography,” observed Dr Li, Head of Security at OPPO. “As consumers become more security conscious, we want to continue to provide an excellent smartphone experience while protecting our users’ privacy by ensuring that their devices are secure.”