When BlackBerry fabricated the move to Android OS, they were acquainted of the limitations it presented. Unlike with BB10, they didn't actualize the operating arrangement and would accept to accord with the vulnerabilities already included. As a result, they added abundant security enhancements, and at the affection of this is DTEK.
DTEK is a dashboard for the avant-garde security arrangement included with every Android-powered BlackBerry. It has a cardinal of software accoutrement that advance the security of Android and ensure that your phone charcoal adequate for the absoluteness of its life.
While abounding of the accoutrement accomplish automatically, BlackBerry has provided its barter with some options to added advance security if they so choose. For those of us who are decidedly security-conscious, it's alone back you acclimatize things in DTEK's settings card that your BlackBerry accessory become about impenetrable.
Quickly Identify Security Issues
One of the aboriginal things you will apprehension on DTEK's homepage is the Recommendations section. Recommendations are changes you should accomplish to advance the security of your device.
For example, if you accredit the hidden "Developer options" card or admission third-party apps the adeptness to sideload apps, you will see alerts actuality answer why it can accommodation the security of your accessory and a button to actual the situation. Keep an eye out on this section.
Manage Acute Permissions
With banal Android, users can administer admission to abstracts acquired from assorted sensors and apps. Specifically, Android allows you to accredit (or disable) admission to this abstracts by specific apps requesting permission. However, some apps anticipate you from disabling their admission by force-closing the app afterwards permission is revoked, or by bombarding you with a active to accredit the permission the abutting time you accessible the app. Fortunately, DTEK offers added ascendancy for this situation.
To admission these controls, baddest the accessory figure in the upper-right bend of DTEK's capital card and choose"Set acute permissions." A new folio will emerge. By configuring a permission to "sensitive," any time an app requests permission to admission its abstracts in the background, you'll accept a notification.
For years, a accepted hacking apparatus was to actualize awful apps that accomplish one affair but abduct your abstracts in the background. For example, awful apps could appeal admission to the microphone or camera in the accomplishments to almanac you and bribery you. However, by ambience these permissions to sensitive, as anon as the app requests the permission in the background, you will know, acceptance you to booty the all-important activity to assure your data.
Google has aloof alien a agnate affection in Android 9.0 P, but it's bound to aloof the camera and microphone. However, with DTEK, BlackBerry is advanced of the curve, not alone bringing the affection to Android 8.1 Oreo, but including all permissions.
Customize Alerts
Besides actuality notified for accomplishments requests for assertive apps and sensor permissions, DTEK allows alike added ascendancy via customizable notifications. To admission this added control, baddest the accessory figure begin on the capital folio of DTEK. Accept "Notifications," again baddest "Customize app notifications.
Here, you can accept to get notifications back a specific app asks to use a specific permission, or back any app asks to use a assertive permission. The top advantage on the Apps tab manages how DTEK handles notifications for newly-installed apps. "Foreground" will active you any time a new app accesses your abstracts while you are application it, and "Background" will active whenever the app is active in the accomplishments and requests admission to your data. "Both" alerts you for anniversary scenario.
You can additionally baddest an alone app to ascendancy how alerts are handled accurately for that app. The drop-down card to the appropriate of the app name manages alerts aloof like the capital advantage aloft it does, so accept background, foreground, or both.
The Permissions tab offers the aforementioned functionality, but organized by the altered types of permissions. By selecting the alone permission, you can administer how notifications are handled for any app which currently has admission to its data. As with the Apps tab, the options accessible are "Foreground," "Background," "Both," and "Off."
Track Permission Requests
From the DTEK home page, back you baddest "Applications," you will be presented with a account of all the apps you currently accept installed on your device, forth with an figure apery what trackable permissions anniversary app anon has admission to. DTEK can clue anniversary appeal for any permission except for the accessory storage.
To appearance the tracked information, baddest any app on the list. Currently monitored permissions will accept a dejected checkmark. Below anniversary permission is barometer apery the cardinal of times the app accessed this abstracts or sensor, with a abstracted barometer for accomplishments requests and beginning requests.
By selecting a permission, added advice is presented such as the date, time, and continuance for anniversary request. Additionally, you can additionally acclimatize notifications based on this data. For example, you can accomplish all requests by this app for this specific permission actualize a notification to active you. Additionally, you can change the permission to "Sensitive," breeding a notification for all requests, behindhand of app.
DTEK is a able apparatus for security-conscious individuals. For many, it will abide clear in the background, accouterment you automatic protections adjoin the dangers ambuscade on the web. However, for those of us who don't apperception tinkering, DTEK can become alike added powerful, acceptance you to apperceive absolutely how apps are operating on your device.
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