Inventors:
- ARMONK NY, US
Miku K. Jha - Fremont CA, US
Sandeep R. Patil - Pune, IN
Riyazahamad M. Shiraguppi - Pune, IN
Gandhi Sivakumar - Bentleigh, AU
International Classification:
H04L 29/06
G06F 12/14
Abstract:
An approach is provided for protecting data owned by an operating system on a mobile computing device having multiple operating systems. A map specifying protected data regions for the operating systems is generated. The map is secured with a shared key retrieved from a data structure. Based on the shared key, a tuple specifying the data region is retrieved from the data structure. Based on the map, the shared key, and the tuple, and responsive to a data cleanup activity being performed by a software utility being executed on another, currently running operating system included in the multiple operating systems, a data region included in the protected data regions is determined to be owned by the operating system. Based on the data region being owned by the operating system and specified by the map, the data cleanup activity is blocked from being performed on the data region.