Intercede and Solacia Inc. have announced an integration of their mobile security solutions to allow Android applications to execute transactions in a hardware protected zone. Intercede's Trusted Application Management (TAM) service now provides application access to ARM TrustZone technology via Solacia's Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) and incorporating digital certificates from Symantec. This is the first time an independent TEE has been installed, post-factory, on a standard consumer grade smartphone and then securely loaded with a Trusted Application (TA) using a multi-TEE TAM service.

This revolutionary solution offers mobile operators, service providers and their application developers greater control of Trusted Applications on Android based mobile devices. The TEE is a secure environment that benefits from the protection of hardware based security such as TrustZone technology that is built into billions of ARM processors. This allows specially designed apps to execute secure transactions in a trusted area that is completely isolated from the standard Android operating system.

Use of the TEE enables enterprises such as banks and service providers to enhance their Android security measures and ensure customer transactions and sensitive information aren't vulnerable to attack by malware.