Safe surfing – even using mobile Internet

Nowadays, you can use your mobile devices to write e-mails, make purchases and even pay bills using online banking. As a result, smartphones and tablets are increasingly the targets of online attacks in an effort to access the wealth of personal and confidential information they contain. “The new Safe Connect app secures private data by channelling all data traffic along a personal encrypted connection,” says Egon Steinkasserer, Swisscom's Head of Innovation. As a result, users of a public WLAN, for instance, in a hotel or a café, have the world's best protection against hacker attacks. What's more, Safe Connect also automatically blocks attempts to access known dangerous websites and malware. In this area, Swisscom is working in partnership with Symantec.