M-KAVACH SECURITY SOLUTION FOR ANDROID PHONES

M-KAVACH SECURITY SOLUTION FOR ANDROID

The Government of India has launched a new desktop and mobile security solution named "Cyber Swachhta Kendra", through its Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-in).


The government also launched an app named "M-KAVACH" security solution for Android phones.

This app currently supports 4.4,5.0 and 6.0  android version. The CERT-in Team is currently working on the other versions for Android phones.

The main work of this app is to restrict access to critical applications such as Social medias app, Mobile wallets, and other apps containing personal information.

Further, the app "M-KAVACH" can be used for more functions such as blocking unnecessary SMS and CALLS, it can BACKUP your DATA and also RESTORE also.


Also, the app can be used to do a complete factory reset if the phone is lost, user can erase the call logs as well as the contact list in emergency.

On top of it also provide Hardware security by restricting mobile phones features like CAMERA, WI-FI, MOBILE DATA, BLUETOOTH, etc.

The government also launched some more services like JGUARD, USB PRATIRODH, APPSAMVID.

JGUARD: It is a browser extension to defend against malicious attacks.

USB PRATIRODH: It restricts the threat posed by removable devices like external HDD or pen-drives, etc. IT is for the Desktop controls usage by these devices.


APPSAMVID: It is a solution for Windows desktop users and enables whitelisting for executable files. Only the files which are pre-approved by the user will be executed on the system.

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