Platform Security Options Overview

Platform security is the means to efficiently restrict or completely prevent unauthorized access to sensitive APIs and data on the mobile phone while keeping the device open to Symbian developers. The following keywords control the platform security options when building a ROM image.

  • platsecdiagnostics: Controls the display of error messages when platform security policy check fails. For details of this keyword, see platsecdiagnostics.

  • platsecenforcement: Controls the enforcement of platform security. For details of this keyword, see platsecenforcement.

  • platsecenforcesysbin: Controls the forcing of binary executables' location into the \Sys\Bin directory. For details of this keyword, see platsecenforcesysbin.

  • platsecprocessisolation: Controls disabling of the insecure APIs inherited from EKA1 (Versions 8.1a, 8.0a, 7.0s, and earlier). For details of this keyword, see platsecprocessisolation.