公开(公告)号：US10219156B2

公开(公告)日：2019-02-26

申请号：US15069136

申请日：2016-03-14

Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute

Inventor： Seung-Jei Yang ,  Jung-Ho Choi ,  Ki-Bom Kim

IPC: H04W12/08 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04W88/02

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a data protection apparatus and method for a smart device. The data protection apparatus for a smart device includes a detection unit for detecting unauthorized activity in a bootloader of the smart device, based on whether a program for acquiring an administrator privilege has been installed and whether a compressed-command file is present, during a procedure for loading the bootloader, and a data access blocking unit for, when the unauthorized activity is detected, performing an operation of locking the smart device, thus blocking access to data in the smart device.