Interception technology is cheap and widely accessible – the required equipment can be purchased for less than $10.000 over the Internet – and many parties possess the tools needed to attack the confidentiality of mobile voice and data communication. While many IT executives think mobile phones represent a weak point in corporate IT security, only a small number of businesses protect their mobile communication. This does not change the fact however that in the modern business environment people regularly discuss sensitive and confidential information on cell phones. This poses threat to business secrecy, executive safety, or financial transaction confidentiality. Secfone protects the confidentiality of your phone calls against a number of different forms of attacks.
Man-in-the-middle attack is a form of active eavesdropping in which the attacker makes independent connections with the victims and relays messages between them, making them believe that they are talking directly to each other over a private connection, when in fact the entire conversation is controlled by the attacker. Secfone shields you from man-in-the-middle attacks by having unique encryption keys pre-installed on the device which providing trustworthy peer authentication.